From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 21 21:26:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC8A1065673 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:26:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBCC8FC0A for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26003 invoked by uid 399); 21 Mar 2009 21:26:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 21 Mar 2009 21:26:38 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <49C55B8C.50208@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:26:36 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090312) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Nordwick References: <02EF6260-D64F-4473-A5F6-C95246261BCE@gmail.com> <49C4775A.4060206@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel/Pro Wireless 3945ABG working! now slow :( X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:26:44 -0000 Jason Nordwick wrote: > Now that I have wireless working, I can copy and paste into messages, yeah! > > [jnordwick@jj ~]$ uname -a > FreeBSD jj.nordwick.com 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE You should consider upgrading to -stable. There have been a lot of fixes in the 7.x branch since 7.1-release. > [jnordwick@jj ~]$ cat /etc/rc.conf > ifconfig_wpi0="ssid mamalinz DHCP" Try doing this instead: wlans_wpi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid mamalinz mode 11g" If your AP doesn't do 11g then leave off that last bit. > And I have no /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Ok, so no encryption on your network at all? We also need the ifconfig output as someone else mentioned. > The card works great with windows, and no other machine in the house > (including Wii/PS3/PSP/Mac/Windows) have any problems connection or being > speedy). > > For hardware, the machine is a Dell Inspiron E1705 dual core. So could there > be SMP issues maybe? No, my laptop is SMP. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection