I've finally coerced FreeBSD 5.4 to see my PCMCIA WLAN card (with many
thanks
to Warner), but it always reports "status: no carrier". I'm
attempting to
connect to an open WAP that broadcasts it's SSID, so my understanding is
that
it should be as simple as "ifconfig wi0 ad.dr.es.s netmask
255.255.255.0" or
"dhclient wi0", but neither of those work. If I do manually specify
an
address, then I can ping that address, but I'm not sure if that actually
means anything.
I've also been running tcpdump on the DHCP server for that wireless network.
I can see plenty of traffic from the other machines, but absolutely nothing
from the laptop.
My /boot/loader.conf looks like:
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd800
Is there something else I'm blatantly missing?
--
Kirk Strauser
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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote:> I've finally coerced FreeBSD 5.4 to see my PCMCIA WLAN card (with many > thanks to Warner), but it always reports "status: no carrier". I'm > attempting to connect to an open WAP that broadcasts it's SSID, so my > understanding is that it should be as simple as "ifconfig wi0 ad.dr.es.s > netmask 255.255.255.0" or "dhclient wi0", but neither of those work.Be sure to set the ssid: ifconfig wi0 ssid whatever -- Tod McQuillin
> Is there something else I'm blatantly missing?If my memory serves me correctly, you need to explicitely force the interface up, eg: # ifconfig wi0 up After setting the SSID. Mine works after doing this, it's an ASUS WL-100. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "God, root, what is difference?" - Pitr, Userfriendly -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050513/51e7a8d2/attachment.bin
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Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:
: I've finally coerced FreeBSD 5.4 to see my PCMCIA WLAN card (with many
thanks
: to Warner), but it always reports "status: no carrier". I'm
attempting to
: connect to an open WAP that broadcasts it's SSID, so my understanding is
that
: it should be as simple as "ifconfig wi0 ad.dr.es.s netmask
255.255.255.0" or
: "dhclient wi0", but neither of those work. If I do manually specify
an
: address, then I can ping that address, but I'm not sure if that actually
: means anything.
:
: I've also been running tcpdump on the DHCP server for that wireless
network.
: I can see plenty of traffic from the other machines, but absolutely nothing
: from the laptop.
:
: My /boot/loader.conf looks like:
:
: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
: hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
: hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd800
:
: Is there something else I'm blatantly missing?
Kirk's dmesg showed some interesting IRQ routing issues that might be
the problem:
pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 4 Entries> on motherboard
$PIR: BIOS IRQ 11 for 0.7.INTA is not valid for link 0x22
$PIR: BIOS IRQ 11 for 0.7.INTB is not valid for link 0x22
Can you send me the output of http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/pir.c
to make sure that's not the problem.
What does vmstat show for irq 10? How about other IRQs?
Warner