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

[Wael Nasreddine]

On Feb 3, 2008 7:53 PM, Jeff Palmer <jpalmer at totaldiver.net> wrote:
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> 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
> > - ----CUT
> > if_wpi_load="YES"
> > wlan_load="YES"
> > wlan_amrr_load="YES"
> > firmware_load="YES"
> > wpifw_load="YES"
> > - ----CUT
> >
> > Now I have a wpi0 interface I tried doing
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> > ifconfig wpi0 ssid eMxyzptlk wepkey "0xC1C731EA92AC05B1E7BA6186CF"
> > - ----CUT
> >
> > but it doesn't associate with the AP all I see in ifconfig is
> > - ----CUT
> > 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
> > - ----CUT
> >
> > my AP is channel 11 so tried to switch manually
> > - ----CUT
> > ifconfig wpi0 ssid eMxyzptlk wepkey "0xC1C731EA92AC05B1E7BA6186CF" channel 11
> > - ----CUT
> > but it didn't associate this way either
> >
> > - ----CUT
> > 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
> >
> > I don't know where to go from here, I appreciate your help guys
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> > Wael Nasreddine
> > http://wael.nasreddine.com
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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.
Yes I do have the one Included in 7.0-RC1

>
> 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
>
>
Oh that's too bad :( Hopefully it'll be soon.
What about your Texas Intruments MMC/SD reader? I haven't tried mine
yet is it working on yours??


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Wael Nasreddine
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.: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs,
   would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.