iwi driver: Probes but no association (FreeBSD5.4).

Josef Karthauser joe at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 23 01:52:50 PDT 2005


I'm trying to get the iwi driver working on my sony A290 laptop.  It's
got a BG2200 chipset in it and the driver probes and finds the adapter,
but it doesn't appear to work.

This is the probe message:

    iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG MiniPCI> mem 0xff6fd000-0xff6fdfff
    irq 7 at device 2.0 on pci2
    iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:38:1e:14
    iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
    iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
    24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

This is the output of ifconfig:

iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::20e:35ff:fe38:1e14%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        ether 00:0e:35:38:1e:14
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
        ssid tao 1:tao
        channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS txpower 100
        wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

The device says in 'no carrier' mode even though my wireless network is
seen by the same device (booting into windows native).

The other end is provided by an athalon chipset device in my server:

    ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	    inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
	    ether 00:09:5b:e5:1f:a4
	    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
	    status: associated
	    ssid tao 1:tao
	    channel 1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
	    rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
	    wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
	    wepkey 1:104-bit

Have you any ideas as to what to try next?  I really fancy me a bit of
wireless.

Joe.

ps I'm running a driver compiled from iwi-freebsd-1.3.4.tgz on
Damien Bergamini's website. The machine in question is: FreeBSD
XXX 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #10: Fri Apr 29 10:39:24
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