ipw-firmware (Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 Driver) Help

[Jonathan Herriott]

Hi All,

I am having issues with the ipw-firmware working correctly.  Under my
windows partition, I see lots of wireless networks around my
apartment, but when I get on my FreeBSD partition and do an  ifconfig
ipw0 scan, nothing shows up.  Here's how I've been trying to check it
(as root):

# ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -r
Radio is ON
# ifconfig ipw0 scan
SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE  S:N   INT CAPS
RONJON          00:13:46:a9:6d:30    6   54M 60:0   100 EPS
Ulia            00:0d:88:eb:c5:f6    9   54M 26:0   100 EPS
baba            00:09:5b:fb:c2:a8   11   54M 19:0   100 EPS
Rainear21       00:0f:66:4c:1e:8f   11   54M 15:0   100 EP
ASHOK           00:04:e2:a6:92:c9    6   54M 15:0   100 EPS
2WIRE550        00:12:88:dd:2e:e9    6   54M 23:0   100 EPS


Then I configure for RONJON with the following:
#ifconfig ipw0
ipw0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::204:23ff:fe6b:37ad%ipw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
        inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        ether 00:04:23:6b:37:ad
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
        status: no carrier
        ssid RONJON channel 6
        authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100
        bintval 100

I used dhclient to set everything up beyond the encryption stuff.  I
have also tried disabling wep encryption on my wireless router to make
sure wlan_wep is not the problem.

Here's the outcome of pings:

# ping www.google.com
ping: cannot resolve www.google.com: Host name lookup failure
# ping 66.102.7.99
PING 66.102.7.99 (66.102.7.99): 56 data bytes
^C
--- 66.102.7.99 ping statistics ---
133 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

The last ping was waited on for about 5 minutes before I gave up.

# ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
^C
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
17 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

The last ping is for my router.

I know it can communicate with the router as this is what I get via a dhclient:

# dhclient ipw0
DHCPREQUEST on ipw0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.100 -- renewal in 302400 seconds.

Any other type of traffic seems to wig out the connection.

Anyone have any ideas on what's going on?  I have been at this for
quite some time, and I can't get it figured out.  Any help on any
other ways of debugging would be most appreciated.

Thanks!
Jon