From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 19:34:42 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 EC982D2B for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x229.google.com (mail-wg0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DF1920C for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id b13so1787162wgh.12 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:34:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8JVa/fXKgUtJO50odmMw5DwAphZZaKxMQEsQAlhO9g8=; b=Tq8u5wZZDX+itLRIqBzbESgKAyzcdVOOerXFlmAYH0FVR/B4g8+tGK/NxpeQWcwIRG HETE4SDs9XzIIjnk8r+Isvw+1IrgCUsiAGJGRAKhr2L7NOgmc26/EevjY4okwWs6e7Xw QGRB/Ibx38tXjE7Nfy30HI9VP3q+/d54O78ukopkpBvLqwOIyWrcrEsZyF/KvkW2fNGB tjiEFPg6Mi5Y9IhIFIEnZ360LNSbXTgpLjs2unag5ct1HKvWhnL4bhGIiEkFHwVYZjQG kwwMhUoB6LCfwO6HQTZUVSkI7a0/s6zrJJe+MGYLX3gW370flNMwDcJY6RXytXXlq2MI iiOA== X-Received: by 10.180.99.163 with SMTP id er3mr5972398wib.18.1414179279638; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([41.138.87.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id t9sm6617630wjf.41.2014.10.24.12.34.35 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:34:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Simm X-Google-Original-From: Anthony Simm Message-ID: <544AA91A.40700@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:31:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block Subject: Re: wireless networking - halfway solved References: <544A13D7.7000202@gmail.com> <544A539F.8080103@gmail.com> <544A7A19.4080405@gmail.com> <544A9365.4060508@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ian Smith , Antonio Olivares , FreeBSD Questions 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 19:34:42 -0000 Works! On 10/24/2014 09:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: > 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. I was going to try and edit that file and figure what change that might be. Logged in as user and pinged gmail again - and lo and behold - it works! No idea what happened an hour ago, it rained, maybe poor connection. 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. > Would you really do that? But for the time being let me try this Windoze update. Or do you think that it is in fact updated? This machine came with Debian and has reportedly not been used a lot but sure there was Windows on it at some time. No such sticker though. So for the Handbook, what's missing at least for this card, are the commands to identify it, the legal acknowledgement in /boot/loader.conf, the addition of wlans_ipw0="wlan0" and ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" in /etc/rc.conf And there was a change in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Did I forget anything? Well, the Windoze thing... crazy. Thanks guys!! Regards, Anthony -- mobile +250 78 8778 161 B.P.155 Gisenyi Rwanda "Artificial intelligence will never match natural stupidity"