Re: wireless ethernet

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't the 'channel' supposed to have a decent value instead of -1 ?  Try 
changing that, it might help.  Check what channel your base station is 
broadcasting on first.

		-Hiten

Jon Hamilton wrote:
> I've been trying to get my laptop (HP Pavillion ze4500) working with my wireless ethernet,
> and am sure I'm overlooking something obvious.  I have a number of cards available, all of
> which seem to behave in a similar fashion: ifconfig seems to see them fine, reports their
> MAC address correctly, etc; I can't get any of them to associate with my base station under
> DragonFly.  All of the cards do work fine with the same base station under various other 
> operating systems on various machines.
>
> The lowest common denominator among the cards is a DWL-650 which works with the wi driver
> (and which I've used on the same network with FreeBSD before, albeit on a different laptop).
> The base station is fine; it works with a number of other machines on the network.  I 
> attempted to reset the base station (a Linksys WAP54G) to its factory default configuration,
> and left MAC filtering and WEP off.  Still no luck.  I can ifconfig the card up:
>
> # ifconfig wi0 ssid linksys up
>
> and everything appears fine, but the card won't associate.  The access point log
> does not show any activity, either.
>
> I've attached below a dmesg from ``boot -v'', pciconf -lv, and ifconfig output.  If anyone
> can point me in a useful direction, I'd appreciate it.  I've tried to do what homework I can
> but am spinning my wheels; probably it's something staring me in the face.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

> wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	ether 00:05:5d:f2:c1:50
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
> 	status: no carrier
> 	ssid linksys 1:linksys
> 	stationname "DragonFly WaveLAN/IEEE node"
> 	channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
> 	rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
> 	wepmode OFF weptxkey 1