Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:46:10 -0400 From: "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> To: Brian Gottlieb <brianosaurus@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netgear MA401RA weirdness Message-ID: <3D433ED2.9C8CEC84@acm.org> References: <3FD36628-A06B-11D6-9867-0003931D965C@yahoo.com>
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Brian Gottlieb wrote:
>
> i recently installed freebsd 4.6 and wanted to play around with hostap
> mode. I had a lucent gold card which worked great as a client, but
> wasn't Prism, so i went out and bought a netgear 401.
>
> I plugged it in, and viola, nothing. I investigated, and it claims to
> be a "MA401RA" not just MA401, so a quick edit of pccard.conf fixed that.
>
> Now when i plug in the card, it recognizes it as a Prism2.5:
>
> wi0: at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 flags 0x10000 slot 1 on pccard1
> wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
> wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.06
>
> But it doesn't seem to recognize my network. The status light keeps
> blinking, and ifconfig reports "no carrier". To make it weirder, if i
> run "dstumbler wi0 -o", the light goes solid, and dstumbler sees my
> access point. So I'm stumped. The OS seems to be able to handle the
> card, but for some reason it won't find my network.
>
> My network is wide open, no WEP, no restrictions. I tried the card in a
> windows laptop, and everything works.
>
> Any ideas? Any other info i can provide?
>
> brian
>
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Brian,
Here's what helped me. This was actually on a Linksys card for me, but
it was exactly the same symptoms and this fixed it. This is from a
thread around the 8th of May this year (relevant email attached at the
bottom). It got me going. If you need specifics let me know and I will
did up my files (I'm on a windows machine at the moment). I think it was
just a -p 0 on both of the machines and a -c 1 on the wireless routing
machine.
-mark
In message: <200205081510.g48FAJa41142@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> writes:
: > In message: <200205070605.g47654P81869@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
: > John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> writes:
: > : If the wpc11 use the Intersil firmware, you should do "wicontrol
-p 0"
: > : and the rest should be the same. (I do not have a card with
Intersil
: > : firmware yet, but this is what I learned when merging the OpenBSD
: > : "mediaopt ibss" stuff.) If it is using Symbol firmware, you need
to
: > : use "wicontrol -p 4" and it can't be a master so the "-c 1" is
useless.
: >
: > That is correct. For intersil (prism) cards with "recent" firmware
: > (0.8 or newer):
: > -p 0 ibss
: > -p 1 demo adhoc (lucent)
: > -p 2 nothing
: > -p 3 bss (access point)
: > -p 6 won't work (hostap mode, needs kernel support)
: >
:
: Don't you have -p1 and -p3 swapped?
Yes. I do. that's what I get for posting w/o double checking the docs.
Warner
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