Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:31:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu> To: jflowers@ezo.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi driver - how to do? Message-ID: <199905242031.QAA22721@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>
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The dmesg "wi0 not found" message is normal; the card shouldn't be found
at boot time by the (nop) ISA probe, but only by the pccard slot-insert-
triggered probe.
The fact that wicontrol works should mean that the wi driver has found
your card just fine.
If you don't have a steady green light on your WaveLAN card, then my guess
is that your card isn't configured for the right SSID ("Network Name") for
your base station. (You have a base station, I assume?)
Try the following:
ifconfig wi0 down
wicontrol -i wi0 -n ""
ifconfig wi0 up
This will tell your WaveLAN card to connect to *any* SSID it sees. The default
configured by the wi0 driver is intended to elicit this behavior, but does
not. (Bill Paul: if you're reading, I suspect that a more appropriate
default value would be the empty string.)
Let me know if this fixes things. If it doesn't, please send the output of
wicontrol -i wi0.
-Brad, karp@eecs.harvard.edu
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