Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
Davis Doherty wrote: The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n my network SSID' and 'wicontrol -p try setting the ssid with ifconfig, and see if that makes a difference. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Matthias Buelow wrote: try setting the ssid with ifconfig, and see if that makes a difference. I have already tried this (though I forgot to mention it), and it doesn't seem to make a difference. -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
Does the access point show that the client is associated to it? I'm new to this list, so this may be a heretic question, but have you tried the card in a Windows laptop to see if it works there? On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:22:44 -0800 (PST), Davis Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Matthias Buelow wrote: try setting the ssid with ifconfig, and see if that makes a difference. I have already tried this (though I forgot to mention it), and it doesn't seem to make a difference. -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
Davis Doherty wrote: I just put a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.10 from CD on my Presario 1610 laptop (ancient!), and I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC11 wireless card working with my home network. The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n my network SSID' and 'wicontrol -p 1'. I then tried to set up the card via DHCP in /stand/sysinstall, and failed, so I set the network information manually. However, ifconfig -a still showed status: no carrier. So I tried 'wicontrol -r 2432' thinking that I might need to have the RTS set to agree with my wireless AP, but still no luck. Except for a brief moment of connectivity, I remain unable to connect. All this took place about 5 feet from the AP, which is not using WEP, so signal should not be an issue. Is there something I'm missing in my setup here? -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your /etc/rc.conf should look have something like this in it: ifconfig_wi0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid xxx wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890abcdef1234567890 -- Best regards, Chris If there isn't a law, there will be. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
Davis Doherty wrote: I just put a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.10 from CD on my Presario 1610 laptop (ancient!), and I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC11 wireless card working with my home network. The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n my network SSID' and 'wicontrol -p 1'. I then tried to set up the card via DHCP in /stand/sysinstall, and failed, so I set the network information manually. However, ifconfig -a still showed status: no carrier. So I tried 'wicontrol -r 2432' thinking that I might need to have the RTS set to agree with my wireless AP, but still no luck. Except for a brief moment of connectivity, I remain unable to connect. All this took place about 5 feet from the AP, which is not using WEP, so signal should not be an issue. Is there something I'm missing in my setup here? -Davis Ahhh - and in addition to (Sorry - I forgot to mention) ensure that the MAC of the nic is setup in your WAP (assuming you have it locked down to allow on certain MAC's access). -- Best regards, Chris Nice tcsh prompt: set prompt = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%/%# ' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
On Sunday 28 November 2004 04:16 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote: Davis Doherty wrote: The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n my network SSID' and 'wicontrol -p What is the version number of your WPC11? Version 4 is not compatible with FreeBSD. Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Jonathan Ben Ari wrote: Does the access point show that the client is associated to it? I'm new to this list, so this may be a heretic question, but have you tried the card in a Windows laptop to see if it works there? The access point is definitely not seeing the client. I don't have access to a Windows laptop for testing the card, but the person from whom I got it insists it was working with XP just two days ago. -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Chris wrote: Your /etc/rc.conf should look have something like this in it: ifconfig_wi0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid xxx wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890abcdef1234567890 I've tried essentially the same thing using the ifconfig command, to no avail (minus the wepmode part, since I currently have WEP diasbled). The output of 'ifconfig -a' still shows status: no carrier. -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 04:16 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote: Davis Doherty wrote: The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n my network SSID' and 'wicontrol -p What is the version number of your WPC11? Version 4 is not compatible with FreeBSD. Andrew Gould It's using the Prism 2 chipset, which is listed as one of the compatible ones (I'm pretty sure that it would not be automagically recognized if it were the version 4 non-Prism card, though I cannot confirm this through experience). -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
