ATHEROS -- 802.11a/b/g Wireless Lan Mini PCI Express -- 6459-CTO

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 04:04 -0400, freebsd_user at guice.ath.cx wrote:
> > > >  > MACHINE: THINKPAD T61P
> > > >  > MACHINE TYPE: 6459-CTO
> > > >  > NETWORK ADAPTER: 11a/b/g Wireless Lan Mini PCI Express (windows)
> > > >  > -
> > > >  > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 <== fresh install
> > > >  > -
> > > >  > ==> pciconf -l -v |grep -i atheros
> > > >  >     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
> > > >  >     device     = 'AR5212 Atheros AR5212 802.11abg wireless'
> > > >  > 
> > > > 
> > 
> > > I was doing so while my em0 was connected to
> > > the same LAN with an ip of: 192.168.1.6 netmask
> > > 255.255.255.0 <== this is not the way I planned
> > > on using the devices.  I only want to use the
> > > 'ath0' unless the situation calls for cable.
> > > 
> > > I'm also not sure what to read about setting up
> > > 'WPA' and/or 'WEP' or, if the device/driver
> > > will auto-detect.
> > 
> > 
> > You don't say that you set the default route once you disconnected the
> > LAN cable.  That will be necessary for access beyond the LAN.
> 
> What I post below was currently done without disconnecting the LAN cable.
> 
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 i386 GENERIC
> ==
> /etc/rc.conf | grep route
> defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
> ==
> 
> Not configured
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	ether 00:1f:3a:4d:45:d1
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> 	status: no carrier
> 	ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
> 	authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
> 	bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 burst
> 	bintval 0
> 
> ifconfig ath0 "DHCP"  <== assigned my external IP to the ath0 :-\
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:1f:3a:4d:45:d1
>         inet 72.225.169.69 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast
> 72.255.255.255
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> (OFDM/36Mbps)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid SORRY channel 42 (5210 Mhz 11a)
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 31.5 bmiss 7
> scanvalid 60 bgscan
>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11a 7
> roam:rate11a 12 burst
> 
> With regard to the above IP being set to 72.225.169.69;
> the routers' DHCP server appears to be working fine with other
> machines using cable and one (1) windows machine (another T61p
> Atheros 5212) on the same network.  Its only this one,
> topic of discuss machine, that gets the external IP
> assigned to it when in fact the outside world see's
> this 72.225.169.69.
> 
> ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.1.111 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid SORRY
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	ether 00:1f:3a:4d:45:d1
> 	inet 192.168.1.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps)
> 	status: no carrier
What does 'ifconfig ath0 list scan' say? Do you know parameters of the
base station you are trying to associate with?

Few notes:
-- on my ThinkPad X60, I have not seen wireless led lit up yet, which
never prevented wireless from working ;)
-- there is a setting for Fn-F5 (only available through Windows), I
always keep it as "Turn all radios on or of" or some such thing.
-- there is a slider switch located at the front of my X60 which does
kill all radios, I do not know whether T61 has one or not. If it does,
you might want to check its position.

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)