intel pro wireless 2200bg support

[Vulpes Velox]

On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:27:38 +0000
Josh Stephenson <josh at clearwired.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to get my toshiba laptop's wireless connection
> configured on freebsd 6.0 stable.  It's got an intel pro wireless
> 2200bg card.  I'm trying to connect to a dhcp wireless network with
> 64 bit wep.  Here's what I've done:
> 
> I installed iwi-firmware-2.4_2.tbz as a package
> 
> me at myputer$ dmesg | grep iwi
> iwi0: <Inter(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xb8006000-0xb8006fff irq
> 22 at device 2.0 on pci6
> iwi0: Ethernet address: <ethernet_address>
> 
> me at myputer$ kldload wlan_wep
> me at myputer$ iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss
> me at myputer$ ifconfig iwi0 10.1.10.109 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid
> <my_ssid> wepmode on wepkey <my_webkey>
> iwi0: fatal errorme at myputer$ 
> iwi0: device configuration failed

You are not telling it which weptxkey to you. Put 'weptxkey 1' in
there and it should work.
 
> if I do 'ifconfig iwi0', i get:
> ---snip--
> inet 10.1.10.109 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.10.255
> ether <my_ethernet_address>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> status: no carrier
> ssid <my_ssid> channel 1
> authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax
> 100 protmode CTS


You may also want to checking out the iwiNG driver as well. Check the
freebsd net mailing list for more info on that.