problems with ath0 "no carrier" on freebsd-current

[Chen Lihong]

If your wlan is WPA/802.11i enabled, you also need wpa_supplicant to
connect to network.
/Lihong
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 19:22 -0600, Jeff Stockett wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I bought some Wistron CM9 A/B/G mPCI cards from wisp-router.com before 
> Christmas because they were on sale for around $50 a piece and rumored to 
> work with madwifi and/or ath driver on BSD.  The specs seem like they should 
> work:
> 
> http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=35_51&products_id=332
> 
> I've tried the card with both Gentoo Linux running 2.6.10 from kernel.org 
> and latest madwifi from CVS.  The card shows up fine and the various 
> ifconfig/iwconfig commands all work as expected but the card will never 
> associate with an AP or if acting as an AP clients can't connect with it 
> (simplest case, no encryption/security etc.).  FWIW, the symptoms present 
> identically to the countrycode problem discussed on madwifi-users the last 
> week in December - although I tried passing various country codes into the 
> module still with no joy (perhaps I never passed the right value ).
> 
> Those problems, the fact that madwifi-users won't let people who use MSN as 
> their ISP post, and general frustration with Gentoo led me to try freebsd 
> which I must confess I like alot better for its simplicity and thorough 
> documentation.  I updated from 5.3STABLE to current because ultimately I 
> want WPA support (even though now I'm just trying to get it working without 
> any security) and was hopeful things would just work.  However, they didn't.
> 
> Here is what I get from "dmesg | grep ath0":
> 
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdf000000-0xdf00ffff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci2
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:6b:34:1b:23
> ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
> 
> Note that the channel information doesn't show up.  FWIW, it did show up 
> properly for all three modes with madwifi.
> 
> Similarly, all the ifconfig commands seem to work, but no matter what I do, 
> status on the interface always shows "no carrier".
> 
> A few final things to note:
> 
> 1.  The mPCI card is installed in a mPCI to PCI adapter/bridge shown here:
> 
> http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=167
> 
> 2.  I don't think this is a random hardware problem, because the card does 
> work fine when I put it in my laptop which runs Windows XP (I just let it 
> pick the generic Atheros driver from Windows Update).
> 
> 3.  Apparently this card is well supported by Star-OS and Microtik - but 
> I've read that they are just tweaked versions of madwifi/no?
> 
> Thoughts/pointers on how to proceed from here?
> 
> Thanks,  Jeff
> 
> 
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