Intel Pro/Wireless3945 issue
Craig Butler
craig001 at lerwick.hopto.org
Wed Jan 27 16:53:15 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:28 +0000, dhaneshk k wrote:
> Fellow FreeBSDians,
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> I am trying to configure my laptop for wireless connectivity to a broadband connection.
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> these are the steps I followed, I don't know what I made wrong, please help to fix the issue..
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> 1 ) To /boot/loader.conf
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> if_wpi_load = "YES"
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> wlan_load = "YES"
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> wlan_amrr_load = "YES"
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> firmware_load = "YES"
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> wpifw_load = "YES"
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> legal.intel_wpi.licence_ack=1
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> save and rebooted the machine
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> and
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> 2) issued the command ifconfig wpi0 up scan
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> but nothing is reported for this command
Howdy Dhanesh
Try;
ifconfig wpi0 list scan
this should bring up a list of all the wifi spots in your area with
signal strengths and rates.
> 3) then I checked the out put of ifconfig
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> it showing wpi0 but no carriers for the device
Once you have found the access point you want to access you'll need to
pass more arguments to ifconfig and possibly setup wpa_supplicant.conf
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html should
help....
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> I am using FreeBSD-7.2 i386 release. Wireless card is Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 . (In Windows XP it works from this Windows I am sending this mail via Wireless access) Any help most welcome.
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> thanks in advance
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> dhanesh
Wpi isn't the most stable wifi for freebsd at the moment, I am having a
few issues with it... It keeps dropping the connection silently unless I
hammer the AP with ping...
Regards
Craig B
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