FreeBSD wireless difficulty

Frank Staals frank at fstaals.homeunix.org
Sat Jul 10 08:46:28 PDT 2004


freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote:

>Message: 34
>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500
>From: "Douglas Korinke" <dbkorink at eagle.fgcu.edu>
>Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
>To: "FreeBSD Help" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Message-ID: <20040710112706.M15515 at eagle.fgcu.edu>
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>
>Hello,
>
>I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to 
>connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had 
>to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card.
>
>The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA 
>card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router 
>at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse 
>webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used 
>dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my 
>wireless card.
>
>Any tips or suggestions?
>
>Doug
>
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>
>
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I don't know if the atuwi driver supports your WLAN card, but you might 
want to check it. You schould check it at www.vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/

I hope you will be able to fix it

-- 
Frank Staals

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