Thanks for ath|wireless work

[Parv]

I want to thank Warner L for mentioning "Belkin My Essentials
Wireless G" card which I acquired yesterday from local OfficeMax, as
the card is working lovely with DHCP (& WPA) for last
50 some minutes on FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE (Dec 13 2006).

I am also grateful for Sam L & others' efforts on ath driver &
related infrastructure.  Forgive me if I do not know names of people
who have contributed to the wireless work in FreeBSD.


In order to use already available Intel 2200BG card (iwi driver), in
IBM Thinkpad T42, I ha(d|ve) to assign a particular IP address which
basically confine[ds] me to the home network (where I can be sure
that the address will not be in conflict with those offered via
DHCP).


In any case, please remember (note to self, really) to check all
your firewalls including MAC restrictions on both router & wireless
unit, not only ipf rules, before thinking of writing to the list
about dhclient getting no love or wpa_supplicant going in endless
loop in vain.


Here is some information about the card (MAC addresses obfuscated for
whatever good that does) ...

  dmesg:
    pcib2: requested memory range 0xc0214000-0xc0214fff: good
    pcib2: matched entry for 2.2.INTA (src \\_SB_.LNKC:0)
    pcib2: slot 2 INTA routed to irq 11 via \\_SB_.LNKC
    pcib2: cardbus0 requested memory range 0xc0240000-0xc024ffff: good
    found-> vendor=0x168c, dev=0x001a, revid=0x01
        bus=3, slot=0, func=0
        class=02-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
        cmdreg=0x0000, statreg=0x0290, cachelnsz=8 (dwords)
        lattimer=0xa8 (5040 ns), mingnt=0x0a (2500 ns), maxlat=0x1c (7000 ns)
        intpin=a, irq=11
        powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
    ath0: <Atheros 5212> memory 0xc0240000-0xc024ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
    ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xc0240000
    ath0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0 type 1 at 0xb
    ath0: [MPSAFE]
    ath0: bpf attached
    ath0: Ethernet address: 00:17:3f:xx:yy:zz
    ath0: bpf attached
    ath0: bpf attached
    ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
    ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
    ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
    ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
    ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
    ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
    ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
    ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
    ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons

  pciconf -lv:
    ath0 at pci3:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x701d1799 chip=0x001a168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
        vendor   = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
        class    = network
        subclass = ethernet

  ifconfig ath0 (& caps):
    ath0: flags=8847<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
            inet 192.168.2.102 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
            ether 00:17:3f:xx:yy:zz
            media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g (OFDM/48Mbps)
            status: associated
            ssid holy-cow3 channel 11 bssid 00:14:bf:aa:bb:cc
            authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit
            txpowmax 36 bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst roaming MANUAL bintval 100

    ath0=783ed0f<WEP,TKIP,AES,AES_CCM,IBSS,HOSTAP,AHDEMO,TXPMGT,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,TKIPMIC,WPA1,WPA2,BURST,WME>


  - Parv

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