Connecting P1i to FreeBSD

[Ivan Voras]

It might be a problem in the rum interface, because the device connects 
perfectly to the iwi interface in the laptop. Here are ifconfigs for the 
devices:

rum0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> 
metric 0 mtu 1500
         ether 00:1c:f0:9d:08:b3
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> 
(autoselect <adhoc>)
         status: associated

         ssid bsd7adhoc
	channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g)
	bssid c6:98:35:ef:28:ae
         authmode OPEN
	privacy OFF
	txpower 50
	scanvalid 60
	bgscan
         bgscanintvl 300
	bgscanidle 250
	roam:rssi11g 7
	roam:rate11g 5
         protmode CTS


iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         ether 00:0e:35:4a:2d:e8
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect 
<adhoc>)
         status: associated

         ssid omg
	channel 10 (2457 Mhz 11g)
	bssid c6:e6:a6:49:5c:d7
         authmode OPEN
	privacy OFF
	bmiss 10
	scanvalid 60
	bgscan
         bgscanintvl 300
	bgscanidle 250
	roam:rssi11g 7
	roam:rate11g 5
         protmode CTS

I don't know if the differences are significant, but the first one 
doesn't work and the second one does.

One other thing: when on Windows (i.e. when it's working), the "link" 
LED on the rum NIC flashes constantly, as well as the "act" LED. On 
FreeBSD (when it's not), the "link" LED flashes occasionally (presumably 
when there's data traffic), and the "act" link flashes as constantly as 
before.

Maybe it has something to do with the missing beacons from my past messages?

The rum(4) man page has a CAVEAT about automatic control of transmit 
speed but forcing it to DS/1Mbps mode 11b doesn't help (the device is 
11b-only).

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