Project Evil: The Evil Continues

Bill Paul wpaul at FreeBSD.ORG
Mon Jan 26 08:58:13 PST 2004


> Works a treat!! (Dell Latitude D600, 5.2-CURRENT - buildworld 24/1/04,
> 25/1/04, 26/1/04)
> 
> Comes up on boot/resume with no problems. Had to try a few windows
> drivers - the one that worked was the latest driver for XP from Dell.
> Win2k drivers don't seem to work at all.

Define "don't seem to work." In theory, the Win2k and WinXP drivers
should both work, though admittedly I only experimented with the XP
ones myself. I suppose since I have sample Centrino cards, I should be
able to track this down, but if you could elaborate on what problems
you had with the Win2k drivers, it would help.

> I can pull up to about
> 660Kbyte/s across it. No signs of instability. Not tried WEP and only in
> adhoc mode (I understand that they are not supported yet?). 

I don't know what led you to believe this. WEP is supported, as are
both infrastructure and ad-hoc mode:

Sample ad-hoc mode initialization:

# ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt adhoc
# ifconfig ndis0 ssid "yournetname"
# ifconfig ndis0 wepmode on
# ifconfig ndis0 wepkey 0x12345678901234567890123456

Sample infrastructure mode initialization:

# ifconfig ndis0 media autoselect
# ifconfig ndis0 ssid "yournetname"
# ifconfig ndis0 wepmode on
# ifconfig ndis0 wepkey 0x12345678901234567890123456

Note: WEP keys should be either 10 or 26 hex digits (or 5/13 ASCII
characters) in length (which corresponds to the 40/128 bit key sizes,
respectively). Any other size likely won't work.

You should also be able to combine these into a single command:

# ifconfig ndis0 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 up ssid "yournetname" mediaopt adhoc wepmode on wepkey 0x12345678901234567890123456 up

-Bill

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