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Date:      Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:06:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ambrisko@ambrisko.com
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, priarifire@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: Configure wireless connection using Cisco aironet 350
Message-ID:  <200601030406.k03468RF005849@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <200512011757.jB1HvwP3009101@ambrisko.com>

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On  1 Dec, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Imrani writes:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> | Hi,
> |    
> |   I am trying to configure Cisco Aironet 350 wireless PCI card but I 
> | get an error which I am unable to find much details for that. Following 
> | is description of ifconfing:
> |    
> |   > ifconfig an0 
> |   an0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> |         inet6 fe80::209:7cff:fe22:6eab%an0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> |         ether 00:09:7c:22:6e:ab
> |         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
> |         status: associated
> |         ssid  1:myhome channel 9
> |         stationname FreeBSD
> |   ano: record length mismatch -- expected 194, got 196 for Rid ff10
> |         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 2 txpowmax 0 rtsthreshold 0
> |         fragthreshold 0 roaming DEVICE
> |    
> |    
> |   As you can see the wireless card is detected and status is "associated' 
> | but my wireless connection doesn't work. I cannot even ping the router. 
> |    
> |   Can you please help me configure wireless connection with my router.
> |    
> |   Also, here are more details:
> |    
> |   WEP on, encryption is 128 bits, BSD 6.0, PCI card is Cisco Aironet 350, 
> | AMD athalon.
> 
> 
> Is this mini-PCI.  If so down-rev the firmware.  I got it working better
> with newer version of mini-PCI but ran into problem in which checking
> on status while sending data could wedge the card.  Doing a kldunload/kldload
> fixes it but my reset attempts methods didn't :-(  I also have the
> HW MIC support added but not the SW bits.  I been derailed on too many
> other FreeBSD problems to make much progress.  I have lots of things
> that need polish before they can be commited but don't have the time to
> do that :-(  The biggest thing is an OpenIPMI compatable IPMI driver
> so ipmitool etc. can talk via the motherboard interface.

Same problem here with firmware V5b00.08.  What's a
good revision to try?




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