From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 19:00:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51641E3 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D965EDA9 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s9OJ0DVG042834 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:00:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id s9OJ0Dqx042831; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:00:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:00:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Anthony Simm Subject: Re: wireless networking - halfway solved In-Reply-To: <544A9365.4060508@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <544A13D7.7000202@gmail.com> <544A539F.8080103@gmail.com> <544A7A19.4080405@gmail.com> <544A9365.4060508@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:00:13 -0600 (MDT) Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Antonio Olivares X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:00:16 -0000 On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Anthony Simm wrote: > Hello all, > > based on a suggestion from Warren, I added > > legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 > > to > > /boot/loader.conf > > and changed the entries in > > /etc/rc.conf to: > > wlans_ipw0="wlan0" > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" > > then I rebooted and sure enough, the wireless light is on! Yeeeeeahhh! > > But > > $ ping mail.google.com > > times out, and gives > > $ ping: cannot resolve mail.google.com: Host name lookup failure > > (I tried ping mail.ru as well, same result) > > So, there is another issue; probably has to do with the likely fact that the > firmware is outdated and the card does not support WPA while my brand new > wireless router is using that protocol. Right. An entry in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is still needed to connect to that particular network. It's good that the router uses WPA, but bad because the card does not (normally) support it. At least the one that came with my 2004-era T42 did not. > There is a way to silently update the firmware of the wireless card under > Windows according to Warren and I will try to do that, and report back > afterwards. I searched for firmware updates and found none. Then I updated the Windows driver and surprise, the card now supported WPA. I still have that T42, although it does not get used. It worked the last time I tried FreeBSD on it, and I can drag it out if testing is needed.