From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 20:35:52 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 8571869C for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x232.google.com (mail-wi0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::232]) (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 15E0EAA3 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id q5so2211167wiv.17 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:35:50 -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=jTOEN4fKOGsVp/MAPi52oNDHA7hBfz/wJMEGdDBqib0=; b=t2hylqa93TpwmRhAIc0OETzbzeKwySL2ZRud1HnPlI5AgImwcyLcz3hYsrRwPx75Ps e4ljcWRjYfHrO74CrEx3VWN0huFRNtmtruHDPjc+RVham9zYmFVrhPVMOKIoyzyYK9RB QODzejrc4iBnHE5yfe83pvG563dcITcpjHFW4cnjQ3RBvGG0MiUm51K8YHQCbYGIp9PY xkWJ9zDHP4sgScIh3s9CtikVSqzG+N2XtnHrR+RzxKxqhsXWwlerHpbloYs0ppgMrjuh cDhZ/vwOgI8s/j/ukwrZI8Ta+nZByLWqia73a9FmU2Fm8zNi9yPBS3ryiJKMwMOxCXlw 6oig== X-Received: by 10.180.198.145 with SMTP id jc17mr6274021wic.67.1414182950453; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([41.138.87.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mc4sm3157759wic.6.2014.10.24.13.35.47 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:35:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Simm X-Google-Original-From: Anthony Simm Message-ID: <544AB774.5000109@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:32:52 +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> <544AA91A.40700@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 20:35:52 -0000 On 10/24/2014 10:19 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Anthony Simm wrote: >> On 10/24/2014 09:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> 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? > > If necessary, sure. > >> 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. > > If it made a WPA connection, you are set. The output of 'ifconfig' > shows some information on how it connected. ifconfig now gives ipw0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:0c:f1:5e:4c:58 nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b status: associated So the card is really updated. Great, that saves me this XP hassle! > > (It's possible I've forgotten or confused some of the details in the > years since I did that with my T42. But as I remember it, it did not > work with WPA on FreeBSD until that Windows driver update.) > >> 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. > > We can't cover every card in detail, there are just too many. What I > wanted to have in the quick start was an easy way for the user to find > out which card they had, and more importantly, which driver supported > it. Unfortunately, the drivers do not have a standard method of being > queried for which PCI IDs they support, or a script could set this all > up for the user. > Yes, I see that. Forget that I wrote that. Just wanted to be nice. > Usually when I have an idea like that, five years go by, then someone > else thinks of it and is hailed as a genius. > Time always flies by... you three are my heroes, rest assured. Thanks once more, Anthony -- mobile +250 78 8778 161 B.P.155 Gisenyi Rwanda "Artificial intelligence will never match natural stupidity"