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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:19:59 -0700
From: Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>
To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
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Subject: Re: Linksys WPC11 and -stable
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:05:45AM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org> wrote:
> 
> > What am I doing wrong ?
> 
>      Not specifically saying what problem you're encountering?  I assume
> you're trying to say that you can't get the WPC11 card to work, as your
> ping(1) isn't reaching the "gateway" for some reason or another.

That's the problem.

> 
> [ BTW, partial dmesgs are usually useless.  You usually need to specify
>   the entire dmesg, preferably verbose, although you might be very lucky
>   in this case, and might not need to.  ]
> 
>      That said, are you using a Linksys gateway?  If so, then perhaps
> these changes haven't yet made it into -stable?:
> 
> 	http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=164039+167666+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010520.freebsd-mobile

Thanks for the hint! I did search the archive, but this one failed to
hit WPC11.

Yes, I am using a Linksys base station (BEFW11S4), with a recent
firmware.

Will try out the suggested patch.
	
	-Arun


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