iwi(4) problem on start

Sergey Matveychuk sem at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 16 18:28:30 UTC 2006


Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>>> I have the configuration at home:
>>> notebook with iwi(4) - ZyXel AP - 100Mb switch - desktopPC(s)
>>>
>>> When I boot my notebook it's not available outside - from desktopPC. But
>>> when I do ping (or any network activity) from notebook, everything
>>> starts work.
>>>
>>> Any comments?
>>>
>>> PS. It's CURRENT a week ago age and the freshest iwi-firmware-kmod port.
>>
>> Oh, forgot to say, AP is in BSS network-mode with 64-bit WEP encryption.
> 
> Do you have the word "up" in your ifconfig line?

No. But interface is up:
iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

If it not in UP state? And no magic happens when I try ifconfig iwi0 up
now. Just outgoing traffic helps.

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.


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