Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:05:45 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: =?windows-1252?Q?Ashish_Shukla_=3F=3F=3F=3F_=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F?= <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect to Wireless LAN using Athereos AR5007EG ? Message-ID: <486EE509.1030003@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <873ampqiu0.fsf@chateau.d.lf> References: <873ampqiu0.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
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Ashish Shukla ???? ????? wrote: > [posted earlier but got no replies, so reposting] > > Hi list, > > I've tried HAL v. 0.10.5.6 available at Sam Leffler's user directory[1] > in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64) and Gentoo GNU/Linux (hardened/AMD64). > > In Gentoo GNU/Linux, I'm able to connect to a WPA2 secured network with > no problems, whereas in FreeBSD, I'm only able to scan the Wireless > network successfully, not able to ping any box. I've tried FreeBSD with > an unencrypted network as well as encrypted network using > wpa_supplicant, but except scanning nothing worked. I can associate with > the access point, but thats it. > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 kernel, just replaced > /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath with the directory in tarball, and rebuilt > all modules. > > abbe [ath_hal-20080528] monte-cristo% pciconf -l |grep ath0 > ath0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x137b103c chip=0x001c168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > Any ideas ? > > References: > [1] - http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz > > Tons of thanks to Sam for posting the HAL. > HEAD works fine with 0.10.5.6 so there's something in the 7.x driver that needs to be updated. I hope to look at it this weekend. Sam
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