Intel 3945 wpi driver doesn't seem to work ('cause of license problems???)

[vittorio]

What I really need is an explanation **step by step** on how to set up a wpi 
connection. Step by step .....

Ciao
Vittorio 

Il Wednesday 02 January 2008 10:41:11 Matthew Seaman ha scritto:
> vittorio wrote:
> > legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
> >
> > is in /boot/loader.conf
> >
> > BUT
> > 1)
> > it seems that sysctl is unable to find it and I have to set it via
> > kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
> >
> > Shouldn't this variable be set by sysctl or by loader.conf?
> >
> > 2)
> > dhclient is unable to get an IP address (trying to set wpi0 up with a
> > fixed IP makes wpi0 not associated to any AP)
>
> Hmmm.... I have a similar setup.  In my case, it's a Dell D800 using
> iwi:
>
> % grep iwi /var/run/dmesg.boot
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xfafee000-0xfafeefff irq 9 at
> device 3.0 on pci2 [...]
>
> and a ZyXEL 660HW router:
>
>                  Menu 24.2.1 - System Maintenance - Information
>
>                     Name: gate.infracaninophile.co.uk
>                     Routing: IP
>                     ZyNOS F/W Version: V3.40(ACI.7) | 10/18/2006
>                     ADSL Chipset Vendor: DMT FwVer: 3.4.1.0_A_TC, HwVer:
> T14F7_+ Standard: Multi-Mode
>
> However I have no problems setting legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
> from /boot/loader.conf -- it could be something as stupid as no
> newline at end of file.  Try running 'od -c /boot/loader.conf'
> or 'cat -e /boot/loader.conf' to verify.
>
> On the question of the DHCP service provided by this combination router
> and wlan hardware, and indeed the whole performance at providing wireless
> lan connectivity -- I'm not particularly impressed.  I'd restart the laptop
> and everything would be fine for a few hours, but leave it running
> overnight and it would lose the lease and end up without an IPv4 address.
> IPv6 addresses autoconfigured with rtadvd and rtsol seem quite a lot more
> stable but I've seen every combination of being able or not to ping or
> ping6 the laptop from a wired machine.
>
> In the end I found that setting the ZyXEL to do DHCP Relay and running
> isc-dhcpd on a FBSD box with the lease times increased as so:
>
> default-lease-time 3600;        # 1 hour
> max-lease-time 86400;           # 1 day
>
> plus moving the laptop to within about 2m of the ZyXEL seems to have
> made quite an improvement.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew