Trouble with Intel WIFI ipw2200

[Mel]

On Monday 07 July 2008 03:03:48 Diego F. Arias R. wrote:

> i have installed freebsd on my laptop but i have a weird problem. I
> can assosiate with my AP(AccessPoint) using my WEp key but dont works.
> If i try to use DHCP or set a IP address dont works but if i put
> tcpdump i can see a few packets. If i try with a keyless network it
> works.
>
>
> yatusabes# uname -a
> FreeBSD yatusabes 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18
> 07:33:20 UTC 2008
> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> yatusabes# ifconfig iwi0
> iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:13:ce:e8:e8:f4
>         inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.122.255
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: associated
>         ssid "Dark Princess" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid
> 00:1b:11:9b:19:7c authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit
> bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7
> roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS
>
>
> yatusabes# ifconfig iwi0 ssid "Dark Princess" wepkey thekey weptxkey 1 up


This is up and working. So define 'not working'. Other then your IP being .1 
in /24 network, which is generally used for the router, I don't see anything 
wrong. If the key wasn't accepted, it wouldn't be associated.


-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.