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

[Adrian Chadd]

What's the panic look like?



Adrian


On 17 August 2012 18:26, Yuval Prag <pugibebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
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