Re: ath driver and wg311t

On Monday 26 July 2004 07:35 am, Geoff Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Netgear WG311T (Atheros chip) card in my FreeBSD current
> machine. I'm trying to set it up as an access point.
>
> The card at the other end is a netgear WG111 (USB) on windows XP.
>
> It is very, very hard to get the two to connect (takes hours). Most of the
> time they don't. Once connected though they stay connected pretty well.
>
> I've turned on debug.ieee80211 and get the error message:
> unsupported auth 1.
>
> Looking through the code this means the WG111 on XP is trying to access the
> WG311T on FreeBSD via a shared key - yet I've told XP to use open mode.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have another wireless card to see whether it is just
> the WG111 on XP that is the problem (it could be the driver on XP ignoring
> the open mode selection).
>
> Could it also be the FreeBSD ath driver telling the XP machine to connect
> with a shared key?

Your problem is likely due to use of 11g.  The existing net80211 code in 
FreeBSD is missing proper 11g support.  Try forcing the ap to use only 11b 
and see if things work.

	Sam