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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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