I need some help trying to make Intel 3945ABG wireless card working.

Jeff Palmer jpalmer at totaldiver.net
Sun Feb 3 22:08:21 UTC 2008


Wael Nasreddine wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 7:53 PM, Jeff Palmer <jpalmer at totaldiver.net> wrote:
>   
>> Wael Nasreddine wrote:
>>     
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm new to FreeBSD and I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 equipped
>>> with an Intel 3945ABG wireless card. I searched a bit and I added
>>> these to /boot/loader.conf
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>>> if_wpi_load="YES"
>>> wlan_load="YES"
>>> wlan_amrr_load="YES"
>>> firmware_load="YES"
>>> wpifw_load="YES"
>>> - ----CUT
>>>
>>> Now I have a wpi0 interface I tried doing
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>>> ifconfig wpi0 ssid eMxyzptlk wepkey "0xC1C731EA92AC05B1E7BA6186CF"
>>> - ----CUT
>>>
>>> but it doesn't associate with the AP all I see in ifconfig is
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>>> wpi0: flags=8802
>>>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>     ether 00:19:d2:42:91:3f
>>>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>>>     status: no carrier
>>>     ssid eMxyzptlk channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
>>>     authmode OPEN privacy OFF wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7
>>>     scanvalid 60 bintval 0
>>> - ----CUT
>>>
>>> my AP is channel 11 so tried to switch manually
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>>> ifconfig wpi0 ssid eMxyzptlk wepkey "0xC1C731EA92AC05B1E7BA6186CF" channel 11
>>> - ----CUT
>>> but it didn't associate this way either
>>>
>>> - ----CUT
>>> wpi0: flags=8802
>>>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>     ether 00:19:d2:42:91:3f
>>>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>>>     status: no carrier
>>>     ssid eMxyzptlk channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g)
>>>     authmode OPEN privacy OFF wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7
>>>     scanvalid 60 protmode CTS bintval 0
>>> - ----CUT
>>>
>>> I don't know where to go from here, I appreciate your help guys
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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>>> Wael Nasreddine
>>> http://wael.nasreddine.com
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>> Wael,
>>
>> you didn't mention what version of the driver you are using,  so I'll
>> assume you're using the one in 7.0-RC1.  To make you aware,  I have a
>> toshiba satellite A135-S4517, and the wpi driver included in RELENG_7_0
>> doesn't work for me either.
>>     
> Yes I do have the one Included in 7.0-RC1
>
>   
>> Attempts to work through the issue with the person originally porting
>> the driver seem to have stalled, but in following current@ it seems as
>> though others are submitting patches for it recently.
>>
>> My advice?   Hang in there.  at some point the hardware will be
>> supported.  It seems to work for several implementations of th 3945abg
>> chipset.  I can't assume ours is that drastically different.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>     
> Oh that's too bad :( Hopefully it'll be soon.
> What about your Texas Intruments MMC/SD reader? I haven't tried mine
> yet is it working on yours??
>
>
>   
Wael,  the MMC/SD does not currently work.  Last I heard, imp@ was going 
to work on it a driver.   further info:  http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/

Hope it helps,

Jeff Palmer


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