iwi fatal error on Dell Inspiron 6000 (debug info attached)

[Fabian Keil]

Ted Faber <faber at isi.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:02:55PM +0200, Damien Bergamini wrote:
> > for 2915ABG adapters, you need to run:
> > 
> > % ifconfig iwi0 mode 11g
> > 
> > before setting an IP address.
> > 
> > the firmware crashes when scanning in the 5GHz band (802.11a).
> > i'm working on a fix.
> 
> I thought I sent this, but I don't see it in my out box, nor have I seen
> it come back in.  Apologies if this is a resend.
> 
> This improved matters a great deal for me, but I'm still unable to
> associate with a wep protected network (128-bit key), though it works
> like a charm for unprotected nets.  I used the same ifconfig parameters
> on the iwi NIC that work for a Cisco 350 cardbus card on the protected
> network, but it fails to associate.  The debug output enabled by the
> sysctls indicates that the iwi hears a lot of stations announce
> themselves, but none get associated.  As I say, the Cisco card on the
> same machine associates properly (the cisco's an 11b, but the iwi fails
> on 11b or 11g.  I associated successfully with an unlocked network in
> 11b mode with the iwi, so I think that's working).
> 
> The params are: wepmode on wepkey "13-char-string" weptxkey 1.  That's
> after a separate ifconfig setting the mode above.
> 
> Any words of wisdom?  Should I specify the key differently to the iwi
> (though ifconfig reports the value I expect)?  Can I give you more info?

man ifconfig says:

	     For maximum portability, hex keys are recom-
             mended; the mapping of text keys to WEP encryption is usually
             driver-specific.  In particular, the Windows drivers do this map-
             ping differently to FreeBSD.

Fabian
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