Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:58 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com> To: "Denis Fortin" <fortin@acm.org> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>, "Michael W. Oliver" <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com> Subject: RE: Netgear MA401RA weirdness - Any solution? Message-ID: <DDEE26360FDB9D4E979900626D167AEB7338@MAGNETO.gargantuan.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Denis, I am having a similar problem here. I am using one MA401RA in an old ThinkPad, configured as an access point (hostap). It is working great (except for the incessant "XXX: host encrypt not implemented for 802.3" every two seconds for eternity), and my iPAQ CF card has worked flawlessly. In fact, my other MA401RA works great in Win2k and WinXP. When I boot with FreeBSD, the only way that I can keep the card 'alive' is to maintain a constant packet flow to/from the machine. If the traffic stops, the card will disassociate, going back to MAC address 44:44:44:44:44:44 in 'wicontrol'. I could recover by simply issuing the 'ifconfig wi0 up' command and everything would work fine for a few more minutes. I can't give you the exact output at this time, as I am working within WinXP right now. Regards, Michael Oliver oliver.michael@gargantuan.com http://michael.gargantuan.com/ =20 =20 =20 - -> -----Original Message----- - -> From: Denis Fortin [mailto:fortin@acm.org]=20 - -> Posted At: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:43 PM - -> Posted To: mobile - -> Conversation: Netgear MA401RA weirdness - Any solution? - -> Subject: Re: Netgear MA401RA weirdness - Any solution? - ->=20 - ->=20 - -> Some weeks ago (July 29th), Brian Gottlieb wrote=20 - -> freebsd-mobile about his - -> issue with the Netgear MA401RA wifi card. - ->=20 - -> This card, although labeled "Netgear MA401", is a newer=20 - -> release of the card, - -> apparently based on the Prism 2.5 chip. - ->=20 - -> At that time, his symptoms were that the card worked fine=20 - -> under windows, but - -> even though the card (when added in=20 - -> /etc/defaults/pccard.conf) was detected - -> fine, trying to activate it under FreeBSD only produces a=20 - -> blinking LED, with - -> a "no carrier" indication in ifconfig... - ->=20 - -> Has this issue been resolved, because I have exactly the same issue! - ->=20 - -> Any help would be appreciated. (I can't find a resolution in the - -> freebsd-mobile archives) - ->=20 - -> Denis Fortin - -> fortin@acm.org - ->=20 - -> PS. Or any hint as to what I can try to do to solve the issue... - -> PPS. This is with FreeBSD 4.6.2 - -> PPPS. Brian's July 29th message went like this: - -> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:03 -0700 - -> Subject: Re: netgear MA401RA weirdness - -> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org - -> To: "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> - -> From: Brian Gottlieb <brianosaurus@yahoo.com> - ->=20 - -> On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 05:46 PM, Mark A-J. Raught wrote: - -> > Brian, - -> > Here's what helped me. This was actually on a Linksys=20 - -> card for me, but - -> > it was exactly the same symptoms and this fixed it. This is from a - -> > thread around the 8th of May this year (relevant email=20 - -> attached at the - -> > bottom). It got me going. If you need specifics let me=20 - -> know and I will - -> > did up my files (I'm on a windows machine at the moment).=20 - -> I think it was - -> > just a -p 0 on both of the machines and a -c 1 on the=20 - -> wireless routing - -> > machine. - ->=20 - -> I gave -p 0 a shot, but it didn't help. in fact i tried "-p" with - -> everything from 0-6 just for kicks. - ->=20 - -> When i set it to "-p 0", however, all of the 802.11 info=20 - -> (ssid, station - -> name, channel, wepmode, etc) disappears from the "ifconfig=20 - -> wi0" listing, - -> so i'm not sure what the deal is there. - ->=20 - -> One thing i noticed is that the "NIC serial number" from wicontrol - -> output is "99SA01000000", rather than the "MA41B26185676"=20 - -> printed on the - -> card, which makes me think that something in fact isn't quite right. - -> The MAC addrs do match up, so i don't know what to make of it. - ->=20 - -> But still, when "dstumbler -o" puts it into monitor mode, it sees my - -> basestation and all the other clients. But in normal modes, it won't - -> join my wireless network. - ->=20 - -> My setup is FreeBSD 4.6, Netgear MA401RA (box says MA401), trying to - -> talk to an apple airport basestation. When i plug the card into a - -> windows laptop, it syncs up just fine. When i plug it into=20 - -> my bsd box - -> it just blinks. - ->=20 - -> brian - ->=20 - -> ps - i think i'm going to do the low-tech solution of swapping cards - -> with my fiancee's old MA401, but i'm still kind of curious why this - -> doesn't work... - ->=20 - ->=20 - -> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org - -> with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message - ->=20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Cyber-Knights Templar build 6.5.8ckt Comment: http://michael.gargantuan.com/pgp/pubkey.asc Comment: KeyID: 0xB6F401D2E967CF61 Comment: Fingerprint: 0D35 9DB9 FA53 EA67 27FA D99B 1AC4 F13E iQEVAwUBPZpXx7b0AdLpZ89hAQG1lgf/XvT0zDNhQK0tFto04f3xDq0tGeGeb9U/ xFgtVgTU371+KAMvVKEAe9QUcJwJ1THsw7m133Bh6f0g/5OF1TimUrDQb3hMqOS4 zkWaJZG+6BfTT9DX1CPOlKcEZTePq29AY/rHJvGdlQjVy976U3ki/qQME/dREIqs qBXPx3BeH/eUanbPYQIcBWta9+jncGUP5zrIFzoi9VQmKL2AzLWY9fBo5sY4cPBc S9LKSJqaYYC+v7him+RvIXG9LnCEVgkAnqRItxSsM+26Kegc/5FgkpPotHjNzXZA MQMEhIUdQTCzVW7go9Q9quLL+efwfe62poNfbVE0E9WpV78o4x73RA=3D=3D =3D15xB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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