intel pro wireless 2200bg support

Josh Stephenson josh at clearwired.com
Wed May 31 06:18:04 PDT 2006


Unfortunately...I get the same error when using weptxkey 1:

iwi0: fatal error 
iwi0: device configuration failed

any other ideas?

Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:27:38 +0000
> Josh Stephenson <josh at clearwired.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm trying to get my toshiba laptop's wireless connection
>> configured on freebsd 6.0 stable.  It's got an intel pro wireless
>> 2200bg card.  I'm trying to connect to a dhcp wireless network with
>> 64 bit wep.  Here's what I've done:
>>
>> I installed iwi-firmware-2.4_2.tbz as a package
>>
>> me at myputer$ dmesg | grep iwi
>> iwi0: <Inter(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xb8006000-0xb8006fff irq
>> 22 at device 2.0 on pci6
>> iwi0: Ethernet address: <ethernet_address>
>>
>> me at myputer$ kldload wlan_wep
>> me at myputer$ iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss
>> me at myputer$ ifconfig iwi0 10.1.10.109 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid
>> <my_ssid> wepmode on wepkey <my_webkey>
>> iwi0: fatal errorme at myputer$ 
>> iwi0: device configuration failed
>>     
>
> You are not telling it which weptxkey to you. Put 'weptxkey 1' in
> there and it should work.
>  
>   
>> if I do 'ifconfig iwi0', i get:
>> ---snip--
>> inet 10.1.10.109 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.10.255
>> ether <my_ethernet_address>
>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>> status: no carrier
>> ssid <my_ssid> channel 1
>> authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax
>> 100 protmode CTS
>>     
>
>
> You may also want to checking out the iwiNG driver as well. Check the
> freebsd net mailing list for more info on that.
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