Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:53:22 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: josh@clearwired.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel pro wireless 2200bg support Message-ID: <20060530215322.6af8b241@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <1149010058.23661.22.camel@c-68-35-27-129.hsd1.nm.comcast.net> References: <1149010058.23661.22.camel@c-68-35-27-129.hsd1.nm.comcast.net>
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:27:38 +0000 Josh Stephenson <josh@clearwired.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get my toshiba laptop's wireless connection > configured on freebsd 6.0 stable. It's got an intel pro wireless > 2200bg card. I'm trying to connect to a dhcp wireless network with > 64 bit wep. Here's what I've done: > > I installed iwi-firmware-2.4_2.tbz as a package > > me@myputer$ dmesg | grep iwi > iwi0: <Inter(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xb8006000-0xb8006fff irq > 22 at device 2.0 on pci6 > iwi0: Ethernet address: <ethernet_address> > > me@myputer$ kldload wlan_wep > me@myputer$ iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss > me@myputer$ ifconfig iwi0 10.1.10.109 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid > <my_ssid> wepmode on wepkey <my_webkey> > iwi0: fatal errorme@myputer$ > iwi0: device configuration failed You are not telling it which weptxkey to you. Put 'weptxkey 1' in there and it should work. > if I do 'ifconfig iwi0', i get: > ---snip-- > inet 10.1.10.109 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.10.255 > ether <my_ethernet_address> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > ssid <my_ssid> channel 1 > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax > 100 protmode CTS You may also want to checking out the iwiNG driver as well. Check the freebsd net mailing list for more info on that.
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