DWL-660 issues in FreeBSD

[Drew Broadley]

Drew Broadley wrote:

> I have purchased a DWL-660 (seeing it worked in FreeBSD for othe rpeople
> and uses prism2, which I find out now that they changed it in newer
> revisions *sigh*)
>
> I cannot get a connection to my AP. dstumbler can pick it up and check
> the signal strength no problems.
>
>> ifconfig wi0 up ssid HOME channel 6
>
>
> Gives me:
>
> wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet6 fe80::205:5dff:fe24:9617%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>        ether 00:05:5d:24:96:17
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
>        status: no carrier
>        ssid HOME 1:HOME
>        stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
>        channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>        rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
>        wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
>        wepkey 1:40-bit wepkey 2:40-bit wepkey 3:40-bit wepkey 4:40-bit
>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Note the: status: no carrier
>>>>>>>>>>>
>
I can only get a "state: associated" with "mediaopt monitor" on the 
ifconfig line.

Any ideas anyone ?

- Drew