From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 27 17:40:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DA037B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:40:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mraught.homeip.net (pool-151-205-249-235.cap.east.verizon.net [151.205.249.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D5543E3B for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mraught@acm.org) Received: from acm.org ([10.0.0.50]) by mraught.homeip.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6S0dl6g004748; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D433ED2.9C8CEC84@acm.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:46:10 -0400 From: "Mark A-J. Raught" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Gottlieb Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netgear MA401RA weirdness References: <3FD36628-A06B-11D6-9867-0003931D965C@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message 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 writes: : > In message: <200205070605.g47654P81869@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> : > John Hay 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message