Senao WiFi problems

[Howard Drake]

Frank,

That would be ideal, unfortunately I have the system running on a dedicated
board and an running Monowall which is currently based on 4.11, I'm running
an older beta copy which is based on 5.3 (They tried 5.3 and then reverted
to 4.11 - not sure why...) but I don't have the expertise to modify the base
Monowall code so was hoping that there was something simpler I could try to
fix this as apart from this problem it works great!

I assume from what you say that I couldn't just recompile what I have with
the Version 6 version of wi.c ?

Regards,

Howie


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Mayhar [mailto:frank at exit.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:28 PM
To: howie at nauticall.co.uk
Cc: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Senao WiFi problems

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:07 +0100, Howard Drake wrote:
> I have a Senao 2511 MP Plus mini PCI card running under FreeBSD 5.3. I am
> trying to make it scan for available networks and currently run the
> following two commands "ifconfig wi0 ssid ''" followed by "wicontrol -L",
> but I get wildley different results each time I run these commands -
> sometimes I get a list of 6 or 7 access points and other times I don't get
> any listed. These tests are carried out in the same location,
consecutively,
> so I would expect to see the same number of available access points. 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what I'm missing, or what the problem is?

I urge you to upgrade to FreeBSD 6, which has a _lot_ of new code and
bug fixes that won't be backported to 5 (due to API changes in 6).  I'm
running that card or a very similar one (mine is an a/b/g card) on
-current with no problems at all.  5, though, will, I'm afraid, never
fully support those cards, at least not to the extent that 6 does and
7-current will.
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