Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:28:25 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: howie@nauticall.co.uk Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Senao WiFi problems Message-ID: <1126711705.3686.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20050914150119.1A89643D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050914150119.1A89643D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:07 +0100, Howard Drake wrote: > I have a Senao 2511 MP Plus mini PCI card running under FreeBSD 5.3. I am > trying to make it scan for available networks and currently run the > following two commands "ifconfig wi0 ssid ''" followed by "wicontrol -L", > but I get wildley different results each time I run these commands - > sometimes I get a list of 6 or 7 access points and other times I don't get > any listed. These tests are carried out in the same location, consecutively, > so I would expect to see the same number of available access points. > > Does anyone have any ideas as to what I'm missing, or what the problem is? I urge you to upgrade to FreeBSD 6, which has a _lot_ of new code and bug fixes that won't be backported to 5 (due to API changes in 6). I'm running that card or a very similar one (mine is an a/b/g card) on -current with no problems at all. 5, though, will, I'm afraid, never fully support those cards, at least not to the extent that 6 does and 7-current will. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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