I need some help trying to make Intel 3945ABG wireless card working.

[Jeff Palmer]

Wael Nasreddine wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm new to FreeBSD and I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 equipped
> with an Intel 3945ABG wireless card. I searched a bit and I added
> these to /boot/loader.conf
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> if_wpi_load="YES"
> wlan_load="YES"
> wlan_amrr_load="YES"
> firmware_load="YES"
> wpifw_load="YES"
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> Now I have a wpi0 interface I tried doing
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> ifconfig wpi0 ssid eMxyzptlk wepkey "0xC1C731EA92AC05B1E7BA6186CF"
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> but it doesn't associate with the AP all I see in ifconfig is
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> wpi0: flags=8802
>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>     ether 00:19:d2:42:91:3f
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>     status: no carrier
>     ssid eMxyzptlk channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
>     authmode OPEN privacy OFF wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7
>     scanvalid 60 bintval 0
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> my AP is channel 11 so tried to switch manually
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> ifconfig wpi0 ssid eMxyzptlk wepkey "0xC1C731EA92AC05B1E7BA6186CF" channel 11
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> but it didn't associate this way either
>
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> wpi0: flags=8802
>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>     ether 00:19:d2:42:91:3f
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>     status: no carrier
>     ssid eMxyzptlk channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g)
>     authmode OPEN privacy OFF wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7
>     scanvalid 60 protmode CTS bintval 0
> - ----CUT
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> I don't know where to go from here, I appreciate your help guys
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Wael Nasreddine
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Wael,

you didn't mention what version of the driver you are using,  so I'll 
assume you're using the one in 7.0-RC1.  To make you aware,  I have a 
toshiba satellite A135-S4517, and the wpi driver included in RELENG_7_0 
doesn't work for me either.

Attempts to work through the issue with the person originally porting 
the driver seem to have stalled, but in following current@ it seems as 
though others are submitting patches for it recently.

My advice?   Hang in there.  at some point the hardware will be 
supported.  It seems to work for several implementations of th 3945abg 
chipset.  I can't assume ours is that drastically different.

Jeff