7.1 and ural problem

Rui Paulo rpaulo at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 20 09:03:23 UTC 2010


On 20 Apr 2010, at 01:31, Bobby Walker wrote:

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> Hey list, I've searched and searched for a solution to this problem and I can't find one.
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> I've got the wireless nic setup, its a Linksys WUSB54G v2.
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> Its picked up by the ural driver, but as far as I can tell that driver doesn't work for it.
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> dmesg gives me:
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> ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x05), RF RT2526
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> ural0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
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> ural0: Ethernet address: 00:18:39:03:35:3b
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> Then I get a series of messages that repeat:
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> ural0: link state changed to UP
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> ural0: link state changed to DOWN
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> ural0: link state changed to UP
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> ural0: link state changed to DOWN
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> Here's ifconfig when the device is UP:
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> ural0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
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>     ether 00:18:39:03:35:3b
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>     inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
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>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps)
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>     status: associated
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>     ssid MYNETWORK channel 6 (2437 Mgz 11g) bssid 00:25:9c:9e:e0:00
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>     authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 50 bmiss 7
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>     scanvalid 60 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
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> And in my rc.conf I have this defined:
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> ifconfig_ural0="wpa DHCP"
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> hostname="my.home.server"
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> And lastly this is my wpa_supplicant.conf
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> network={
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>     ssid="MYNETWORK"
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>     key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
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>     psk="mysecretpass"
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> }
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> Anyone have any ideas on how I can pull down a stable connection with this so that I can upgrade to 8.0?

You should try updating to FreeBSD-8.

Regards,
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Rui Paulo




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