inter pro wireless problems

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Tue Apr 11 11:54:42 UTC 2006


<hellbinder at gazeta.pl> wrote:

> I have a problem setting up Intel PRO / Wireless 2200BG on Asus
> A3500N machine running FreeBSD 6.0. I tried to follow instructions
> at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html but they are
> ok up till some point. I've installed iwi-firmware as needed and
> dmesg shows right wireless adapted at booting. 
> First problem: No iwicontrol installed and I can't find anywhere.
> But the interface is up anyway.
> Second problem: sysctl dev.iwi.0.radio shown my card is running but
> the led on the computer is not on - so is it really on? I guess yes
> if ifconfig iwi0 returns:
> iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::212:f0ff:fe86:724c%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>         ether 00:12:f0:86:72:4c
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid mcstudio channel 1
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 100
> protmode CTS
> Final problem when I tried to connect to AP by:
>  ifconfig iwi0 ssid mcstudio wepkey 0x6f73696f6c wepmode on
> I received:
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
> 
> What's that how to solve these problems??

kldload wlan_wep

The next problem will be that you didn't specify
the default key (deftxkey).

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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