Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG crash on FreeBSD-8.3 i386

[Yuval Prag]

Hi
The card is 2200BG
it will error out with and with out the WPA switch.
also it will cause system panic reboot if after it stop responding I'm
trying to do etc/rc.d/netif restart



On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Yuval Prag <pugibebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Im looking for help and some more info on the subject.
>>>
>>> the only post i found is from april 2008 the post suggests to add the
>>> capability to the driver based on or copy from a different WiFi
>>> NIC driver and it is not working still same error
>>>
>>
>> Another then that, you are not giving much information. From the
>> description it sounds like you are using WPA, did you try to run
>> wpa_supplicant in debug mode? Smells like you are getting connected
>> but the encryption is going wrong somehow.
>>
>
> The old 2100 card in a Thinkpad T42 needed a firmware update to be able to
> handle WPA.  That firmware was hidden in a Windows driver update. Maybe
> this is a similar problem.
>