Re: MA401 worked w/5.3 - No go under CURRENT

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 16:56 -0600, Chris wrote:
> John Birrell wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:16:58PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> > 
> >>	I'm just starting to follow the CURRENT branch and popped that 
> >>	latest snapshot on my laptop. Under 5.3 my NetGear MA401 worked with just 
> >>adding something like this to /etc/rc.conf:
> >>
> >>ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXX 
> >>wepmode on wepkey 0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> >>
> >>	And everything came up just dandy. Has something changed?
> > 
> > 
> > I hadn't tried to use my wireless stuff for months until a few days ago. I have
> > the hostap running on current and I was trying to connect with wepmode on from
> > a RELENG_5 laptop without success. I read the recent messages suggesting the
> > explicit setting of the wepkey and default key, but that didn't solve the problem.
> > 
> > I'll be away from the current box for 5 weeks and unable to debug anything, so I
> > know this message is virtally useless. I just wanted to say "me too".
> > 
> 
> Ok folks, I added the suggested stuff in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXX
> wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> 
> And /boot/loader.conf:
> wlan_wep="YES"
> 
> Still a no-go. Light on the wireless nic just blinks.
> I'm pretty much at a loss - anyone?
> 
Here is what I have working under -CURRENT as of 2/19 circa 11:00 AM
EST:

sunny:RabbitsDen>dmesg | grep -i netgear
pccard0: CIS info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P,
Eval-RevA
pccard0:    CIS info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P
wi0: <NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10
function 0 config 1 on pccard0
sunny:RabbitsDen>grep ifconfig `which wi0`
    ifconfig ${NIC} ssid XXX 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 wepmode on
wepkey 0x00000000000000000000000000 deftxkey 1
sunny:RabbitsDen>grep wlan /sys/i386/conf/AVERATEC
device          wlan            # 802.11 support
device          wlan_wep        # WEP support (needs to be compiled in
for now)
sunny:RabbitsDen>kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   15 0xc0400000 4496ec   kernel
 2    1 0xc084d000 3064     powernow_k7.ko
 3    1 0xc0851000 1ccc     io.ko
 4    1 0xc0853000 482c     mem.ko
 5    1 0xc1de9000 6000     linprocfs.ko
 6    1 0xc1def000 18000    linux.ko
 7    1 0xc2560000 1e000    if_wi.ko
sunny:RabbitsDen>

I guess you can start by checking whether your card is the same revision
as mine, and then bring your configuration in line with mine
dot-for-dot. 

If this does not work, we can trade outputs from dmesg with
hw.cbb.debug=1 and hw.pccard.debug=1.

Should all of it fail you can always hope that someone who knows
wireless stuff will reply ;)

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)