port net/acx100 for usr5410 pcmcia wireless FBSD 6.3

[Kemian Dang]

Is your wireless network a non-authentication one, if it is wpa, wep,
you may want to try follow the handbook[1].

I am not using rc.conf to start my wireless, but I think give the ssid
in rc.conf may help, because there may be more wireless network in
your area if it is a non-authentication one.
ifconfig_ath0="ssid your_ssid_here DHCP"

After you give the ssid, what the ifconfig output?
Does the status change to associate?
If yes, you can try:
#dhclient ndis0
to get the ip from DHCP.

Kemian
[1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html


On 21/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > > > On 19/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > > > > Is anybody using usr5410? With what driver? And what version of FBSD?
>  > > > >
>
> > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:21:22PM +0000, Kemian Dang wrote:
>  > > > Try ndis, it works for my broadcom wireless adapter.
>  > >
>
> > > On 20/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > > I added ndis to the kernel and built the kernel module using
>  > > http://www.linuxant.com/usr11gv40q.zip driver.
>  > >
>  > > However, when I load the module:
>
> > > I get errors. From dmesg:
>  > >
>  > > cardbus1: Expecting link target, got 0xed
>  > > cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
>  > > cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=20000
>  > > ndis0: <U.S. Robotics 802.11g Wireless Turbo Adapter> mem 0x88020000-0x88021fff,0x88000000-0x8801ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
>  > > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
>  > > ndis0: init handler failed
>  > > device_attach: ndis0 attach returned 6
>  > >
>  > > What am I doing wrong?
>  >
>
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:39:22PM +0000, Kemian Dang wrote:
>  > Try add it to the /boot/loader.conf and restart to see whether it works.
>  > My ndis0 can not get response from "ifconfig ndis0 scan", but I can
>  > give it the ssid manually and make it work.
>
>
> thanks, it seems to be detected now, from dmesg:
>
>  cardbus1: Expecting link target, got 0xfd
>
> cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
>  cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=20000
>  ndis0: <U.S. Robotics 802.11g Wireless Turbo Adapter> mem 0x88020000-0x88021fff,
>  0x88000000-0x8801ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
>  ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
>
> ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:49:a9:22:59
>
>  I still cannot connect to the wireless network, but this
>  is probably another problem..
>
>  # ifconfig ndis0 up scan
>  SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE  S:N   INT CAPS
>  UoB-Wireless    00:16:c7:71:9d:63    1   52M 18:0   100 E
>  #
>
>  # tail /etc/rc.conf
>  ifconfig_ndis0="DHCP"
>
>  # /etc/rc.d/netif start
>  ndis0: no link .............. giving up
>  ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:c0:49:a9:22:59
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "" channel 1
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bmiss 7
>  #
>
>  I also tried
>
>  # ifconfig ndis0 ssid UoB-Wireless
>
>  but that didn't help.
>
>  I'll try to update the driver version from 4.0q to 6.0b15, but
>  the latter is not working fine yet. I think it is because I mixed
>  different versions of inf, sys and firmware.
>
>  many thanks
>  anton
>
>
>  --
>
> Anton Shterenlikht
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