wifi

[Roland van Laar]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 04:46, James A. Feister wrote:
> I have a netgear WG511t wireless card on a dell
> inspiron 1550.  I am using the current freebsd
> release.
> When inserted on boot-up the card dose not get
> recognized.  I do have 
> the ath and ath_hal in my kernel.  
> On first insertion after boot up a message comes back:
> cbb0: CardBus card activation failed
> When reinserted the second time I get the following:
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf6010000-0xf601ffff irq 16
> at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 4.6
> ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps
> 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36M
> bps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> ath0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:95:16:fa
> 
> I then run ifconfig:
> ifconfig ath0 ssid <insertname> wepmode on wepkey
> 0x<26char wep key here>
> 
> then again with the following output:
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:09:5b:95:16:fa
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet
> autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid MCNET2002 1:MCNET2002
>         channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF
> powersavesleep 100
>         wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:104-bit
> 
> from there I've got nothing. can not ping, no ip.  Is
> there something I am missing.

status: no carrier means that it is not associated with an AP.
You have to do an ifonfig ath0 up to get the card up.
then you should see that it has a carrier.

regards,

roland

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