Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:15:16 -0500 From: "Zane C.B." <zanecb@midwest-connections.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, hellbinder@gazeta.pl Subject: Re: inter pro wireless problems Message-ID: <20060411091516.6d489ea9@zerda> In-Reply-To: <14002189.19331144748304428.JavaMail.webadm@ew11> References: <14002189.19331144748304428.JavaMail.webadm@ew11>
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:38:24 +0200 (CEST) <hellbinder@gazeta.pl> wrote: > I have a problem setting up Intel PRO / Wireless 2200BG on Asus > A3500N machine running FreeBSD 6.0. I tried to follow instructions > at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html but they are > ok up till some point. I've installed iwi-firmware as needed and > dmesg shows right wireless adapted at booting. > First problem: No iwicontrol installed and I can't find anywhere. > But the interface is up anyway. > Second problem: sysctl dev.iwi.0.radio shown my card is running but > the led on the computer is not on - so is it really on? I guess yes > if ifconfig iwi0 returns: > iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::212:f0ff:fe86:724c%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 > ether 00:12:f0:86:72:4c > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > ssid mcstudio channel 1 > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 100 > protmode CTS > Final problem when I tried to connect to AP by: > ifconfig iwi0 ssid mcstudio wepkey 0x6f73696f6c wepmode on > I received: > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument > > What's that how to solve these problems?? iwicontrol is provided by the net/iwi-firmware port. Just install it and put iwi_enable="YES" in rc.conf. I would honestly suggest running with iwiNG and the iwi-firmware-kmod port though. You can find iwiNG on the list here recently. I've had a problem with data corruption with current iwi driver on releng_6. I've also had problems with the device becoming unresponsive after a scan is done. IwiNG fixed both problems.
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