Re: Intel 3945ABG keeps on switch transmitter off

2016-02-24 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
handle my problem ? On 19-02-16 09:46, Vladimir Botka wrote: Hi, On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:17:25 +0100 Chris Van Steenlandt wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD release 10.2 on my old Sony Vaio laptop. It has an intel 3945ABG wireless interface. A lot of times however, I get the following two

Intel 3945ABG keeps on switch transmitter off

2016-02-18 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD release 10.2 on my old Sony Vaio laptop. It has an intel 3945ABG wireless interface. A lot of times however, I get the following two messages that pop up : wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off wpi0: Hardware Switch Enabled. Kind of strange because I leave my

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Indeed, I forgot about dhcp :( If I do that, it works ok. What I did notice after 'dhclient wlan0' is after a while the message : dhclient [2628]: send_packet : No buffer space available Chris On 23-08-14 23:58, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, Ther'es two separate problems; 5ghz transmit, and your

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
too busy / distracted to sit down and fix it. It's not a conceptually difficult thing to fix - someone just has to do it. :P -a On 23 August 2014 13:59, Chris Van Steenlandt wrote: Adrian, - ifconfig step (creation of pseudo device) completed successfully - wpa_supplicant gives the following ty

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Adrian, - ifconfig step (creation of pseudo device) completed successfully - wpa_supplicant gives the following type of output (I can't paste it here, but I'll describe the structure of the output) : 1st message : Initialization successfull Then the following blocks of messages (they alternat

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Adrian, now I understand why I have to put everything on one line :) I tried what you suggested (only "WPA DHCP") and that what's the intial install generated too. But in that case my wireless does not connect to my ssid and keeps on scanning all channels and never connects ... That's why I s

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Julian, I was not aware rc.conf was so sensitive to white space ... I even think it shouldn't. Anyhow the blanks were not really there in my rc.conf. I had to retype everything in my mail (since my laptop's network doesn't work :) and I made a few typo's. But what I did do is try to put everyt

WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Hello everyone, I'm doing my first FreeBSD install (10.0) on an old laptop with an Intel 3945 interface. During the install I already noticed strange behaviour since the installer gave me a "DHCP lease failed". The second time it passed. FWIW, I installed with root on ZFS and the laptop has 1