Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:26:51 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Robert Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2 Message-ID: <3a142e750907011526ka68c664s3606fdc9b4ad2889@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3d5d3ca90907011120h35b5e665gee30466ce72097e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <3d5d3ca90907011048t1a096865iceaa3b82c1af82f4@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750907011055r3750fd54rb66612a4b110e090@mail.gmail.com> <3d5d3ca90907011120h35b5e665gee30466ce72097e7@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/1/09, Robert Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol<onemda@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 7/1/09, Robert Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. >>> It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and >>> other values, but it won't associate with the access point or >>> establish a useful connection. >> >> Does it get any scan results? > > Yes. Scanning seems to work fine. And what about TX/RX signal? >> What kind of AP setup: NONE, WEP, WPA, WPA2 ... ? > > No security. > >>> I've tried compiling ndis drivers for both the Linksys and a Belkin >>> F5D7000 v. 7032 that I bought for my XP box. Both drivers crash the >>> system when they load, leading to a reboot. Groveling through vmcore >>> doesn't give me any clues about why the Belkin ndis crashes. The >>> Linksys crash sends a message that it can't open >>> /compat/ndis/rt2561s.bin. I googled for the firmware files and put >>> them in /compat/ndis, but ndis still crashes. Both cards work fine on >>> the XP box. > > BTW, I'm not getting the open file failed message any longer, but the > ndis driver still crashes the system. Could you put backtrace somewhere? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html >> You are using i386 FreeBSD, right? > > I should have posted this originally: > $ uname -a > FreeBSD stamfordbru.krig.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #3: Wed > Jul 1 11:40:35 EDT 2009 > root@stamfordbru.krig.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STAMFORDBRU0 i386 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Paul
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