NDISulator problem with PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter

Jochen Gensch incmc at gmx.de
Sat Dec 25 11:24:28 PST 2004


Peter Wichert wrote:

> I am trying to get my WLAN running with FBSD 5.3. I have a
> "PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter (3890)" and set it up with the NDISulator.
> After some hours of work I got the following response from "ifconfig ndis0"
> (MAC-Adress and SSID x'd):
> 
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::260:b3ff:fe93:f5f%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>         inet 192.168.2.103 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>         ether 00:60:xx:xx:xx:xx
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: associated
>         ssid XX-WLAN 1:XX-WLAN
>         channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>         rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
>         wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
> 
> This looks good, I think. But, I get no connection the my WLAN. "ping
> 192.168.2.1" (the router) responses with "host is down". What else could i
> do now? Why is status "associated" without getting a connection to the
> network? Might be the 54Mbit speed? Please help,

What says "netstat -r" ?

Jochen



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