Can't make wi0: work on Toshiba notebook with mini-PCI network
card.
Vulpes Velox
v.velox at vvelox.net
Fri Jun 2 17:27:01 PDT 2006
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:08:12 -0600
Lorin Lund <wbs at infowest.com> wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Satelite Pro 6100 with a Toshiba mini-PCI wireless
> network card.
> The wireless stuff seems to be there (for as much as I know)
> This is a dual boot machine. When booted as Windows XP it connects
> and works
> just fine.
>
> I see that ifconfig -a shows the right IP address. But there is a
> lot more info there
> and I don't know what values are supposed to be there.
>
> The wireless access point is 192.168.0.1
>
>
>
> ++++ dmesg +++++
> wi0: <TOSHIBA Wireless LAN Card> at port 0xd000-0xd03f irq 11
> function 0 config 1 on pccard0
> wi0: using Lucent Embedded WaveLAN/IEEE
> wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (8.10.1)
> wi0: Ethernet address: 00:02:2d:57:72:77
>
> ++++ from /etc/rc.conf +++++
> ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid
> TBJTRUCKING wepmode on wepkey 0xzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
You need to tell it what key to use. Add this in... weptxkey 1. I
remember coming across the same thing after moving my laptop from
releng_5 to 6.
> +++++ ifconfig -a +++++
>
> fxp0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> ether 00:00:39:9e:58:d0
> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> status: no carrier
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe57:7277%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> ether 00:02:2d:57:72:77
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
> status: associated
> ssid TBJTRUCKING channel 1 bssid 00:15:05:12:74:43
> stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
> authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit
> txpowmax 100 bintval 100
>
> ++++ ping ++++++
>
> PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
>
> --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet los
>
>
> ---------
> when I try to kldload if_wi it seems to already be loaded.
> when I do kldstat it doesn't show as a loaded module.
> So I think the wi stuff is compiled into the kernel. That is why
> I've commented out the if_wi load.
> I'm using 6.1 RELEASE generic kernel
> +++++ /boot/loader.conf +++++
> #if_wi_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
>
>
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