Configure wireless connection using Cisco aironet 350
Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 2 20:06:22 PST 2006
On 1 Dec, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Imrani writes:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> | Hi,
> |
> | I am trying to configure Cisco Aironet 350 wireless PCI card but I
> | get an error which I am unable to find much details for that. Following
> | is description of ifconfing:
> |
> | > ifconfig an0
> | an0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> | inet6 fe80::209:7cff:fe22:6eab%an0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> | ether 00:09:7c:22:6e:ab
> | media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
> | status: associated
> | ssid 1:myhome channel 9
> | stationname FreeBSD
> | ano: record length mismatch -- expected 194, got 196 for Rid ff10
> | authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 2 txpowmax 0 rtsthreshold 0
> | fragthreshold 0 roaming DEVICE
> |
> |
> | As you can see the wireless card is detected and status is "associated'
> | but my wireless connection doesn't work. I cannot even ping the router.
> |
> | Can you please help me configure wireless connection with my router.
> |
> | Also, here are more details:
> |
> | WEP on, encryption is 128 bits, BSD 6.0, PCI card is Cisco Aironet 350,
> | AMD athalon.
>
>
> Is this mini-PCI. If so down-rev the firmware. I got it working better
> with newer version of mini-PCI but ran into problem in which checking
> on status while sending data could wedge the card. Doing a kldunload/kldload
> fixes it but my reset attempts methods didn't :-( I also have the
> HW MIC support added but not the SW bits. I been derailed on too many
> other FreeBSD problems to make much progress. I have lots of things
> that need polish before they can be commited but don't have the time to
> do that :-( The biggest thing is an OpenIPMI compatable IPMI driver
> so ipmitool etc. can talk via the motherboard interface.
Same problem here with firmware V5b00.08. What's a
good revision to try?
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