I've just installed a Netgear PCI WG311T card and while it works fine
under windows, I cannot seem to get it to work under BSD at all. I am
just wondering what am I doing wrong?...
Anyone has any idea?
# uname -a
FreeBSD gridlinked.neverness.org 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #6: Fri Apr 21
10:49:57 BST 2006 root@gridlinked.neverness.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/gridlinked
i386
# dmesg | grep -i ath
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xeb000000-0xeb00ffff irq 19 at device 12.0 on
pci0
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:f8:3b:92
ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
# ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid NEVERNESS
# tail -1 /var/log/messages
May 10 07:55:27 gridlinked kernel: ath0: link state changed to UP
# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fef8:3b92%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.0.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:0f:b5:f8:3b:92
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
status: associated
ssid NEVERNESS channel 6 bssid 00:0f:b5:c1:09:18
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100
# ifconfig ath0 up scan
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
Sha linksys 00:12:17:c5:2d:2a 9 54M 4:0 100 EPS
OJS70 00:14:7c:b7:2d:84 11 54M 34:0 100 EPS
NEVERNESS 00:0f:b5:c1:09:18 6 54M 24:0 100 ES
[Unplug Ethernet cable]
# ping 192.168.0.14
PING 192.168.0.14 (192.168.0.14): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Host is down
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