Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 21:49:10 -0500 From: "Ahmed Al-Saadi" <affect@linuxmail.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Linksys Wireless Card Burned? Message-ID: <20030210024910.32422.qmail@linuxmail.org>
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Hello:
I tried to connect wirelessly to the internet on a laptop running FreeBSD with disasterous results!
I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 on a Toshiba Portege 7010CT with X Window 4.2. I've used this system with an Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card with the 'an' driver with no problems. However, when I started to use a Linksys Instant Wireless (WPC11-CA ver.3), pccardd could not configure the card; I get the following message:
pccardd{50}: driver allocation failed for The Linksys Group, Inc.(Instant Wireless Network PC Card): Device not configured
Once I remove the card and then reinsert it, pccardd succeeds in allocating the 'wi' driver and I could connect to the wireless network (this is slightly inconvenient, but it's not the end of the story).
After a few minutes of browsing the net using Opera for FreeBSD, the whole system freezes. when I remove the Linksys Wireless card it is very HOT! In fact, I think that I already burned one this way?!! Now the card can not be configured no matter how many times I reinsert it. I went back to the store and got a new card (same brand and model). This time I managed to remove the card before it burned down.
Anyone, had a similar problem? Is it even possible to burn down the card by a wrong software configuration? Please help.
Signed: Ahmed
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