Re: problems with wifi

2006-01-04 Thread JoaoBR
On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:14, Sam Leffler wrote: Bill Paul wrote: yes, i can load if_ath, wireless card is found and i can set it up as ath0, but i still have no signal (and there are many ap's - i can see with different pcmcia card) I think the wireless enable switch controls the

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-31 Thread Ondra Holecek
yes, i can load if_ath, wireless card is found and i can set it up as ath0, but i still have no signal (and there are many ap's - i can see with different pcmcia card) therefore, i think i have to somehow turn it on (the special wireless key on keyboard of course doesn't work) Why don't

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-31 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:41:29 +0100 Ondra Holecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, i can load if_ath, wireless card is found and i can set it up as ath0, but i still have no signal (and there are many ap's - i can see with different pcmcia card) This probably has everything to do with something

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-31 Thread Bill Paul
yes, i can load if_ath, wireless card is found and i can set it up as ath0, but i still have no signal (and there are many ap's - i can see with different pcmcia card) Note that if this in fact a problem with ACPI not supporting the wireless enable switch on your laptop correctly, it won't

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-31 Thread Sam Leffler
Bill Paul wrote: yes, i can load if_ath, wireless card is found and i can set it up as ath0, but i still have no signal (and there are many ap's - i can see with different pcmcia card) Note that if this in fact a problem with ACPI not supporting the wireless enable switch on your laptop

problems with wifi

2005-12-30 Thread Ondra Holecek
on - there is the button on keyboard for this purpose, but of course it does not work in fbsd. I think, if i solve the problems with acpi, wifi will work. I have dmesg full of this messages: Dec 30 12:41:33 vergilius kernel: ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Ondra Holecek wrote: hello, i have bought new notebook - Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1650G it has problems with acpi (eg. acpiconf -s3 does not work, etc.), and it has also integrated 802.11b/g card - recognized as ath0. I can set it up, but it has no signal - i gues it is because it should be

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-30 Thread Ondra Holecek
hello, if i use ndis (driver for AR 5212), i can't see any ndis0 interface driver is net5211.inf, ar5211.sys = ar5211_sys.ko, which should work with this chipset. i have compiled kernel with options NDISAPI device ndis and with or without device ath but still no success

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:25, Ondra Holecek wrote: and with or without device ath but still no success the wireless key does not show anything in xev, maybe it is the reason? what to do with it? Why don't you just load if_ath.ko? It should support that chipset. If you really want to use ndis