ndis0 no carrier

[Fabian Keil]

Mathias Bergqvist <mathias.bergqvist at gmail.com> wrote:

> on my Dell D800 with FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE I've managed to build and load the 
> ndis modules, and gotten as far as the ndis0 device showing up on ifconfig.
> 
> However, I can't seem to get a 'carrier tone', and the SSID doesn't stick. I 
> actually have a DHCP server, so eventually I want to move the ifconfig-stuff 
> to dhclient.conf but for now I just want to get the status to change for the 
> device. Does anybody have a clue about what I'm missing or doing wrong here?
> 
> > dmesg
> ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 
> 0xfafec000-0xfafedfff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2
> ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:62:47:92
> ndis0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> 
> > ifconfig ndis0 inet <IP> netmask 255.255.0.0 <http://255.255.0.0> ssid 
> <SSID> nwkey <KEY> channel 11
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists

I don't get what you mean with <http://255.255.0.0> , but I think your
ifconfig parameters are wrong. I use

ifconfig ndis0 ssid ec60bfg3b4 wepkey 1:0x12345678911234567891123456 wepmode on

to set up the encryption, then

ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.49

to set the IP.

Fabian
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