Trouble with setting up Netgear WG311v3

[Frank Staals]

Sunjae Park wrote:
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> Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 6.1 and am trying to get my wireless adapter
> working. It's a Netgear WG311v3, so unfortunately ath(4) will not work
> (It uses a Marvell chipset). I've tried various options (honest!).
>
> 1. The Yukon driver from Marvell. They have one for 6, and I've tried
> loading it with kldload, and it loads alright, but the adapter won't
> come up. The driver says it's for Yukon and I have a Ethernet
> controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] (output
> from Linux). Maybe it's for a different chipset?
>
> Their Readme says I should remove module "sk" from the kernel, so I
> rebuilt it; still no luck.
>
> 2. ndis-gen with the Netgear drivers. The adapter comes up now, but I
> cannot associate with any AP.
>
>   ifconfig ndis0 up scan
>   ifconfig ndis0 ssid ssid_of_ap
>   ifconfig ndis0 ssid ssid_of_ap bssid 00:00:...
>
> all exit with a
>
>   ndis0: bssid_list failed
>
> Thanks
>
> - --
> Sunjae Park.
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I have the same NIC here and I had it working ( allthough there were 
some issues ...  :  after some uptime, say a week, the NIC didn't react 
anymore so you had to unload the kernelmodule most of the time resulting 
in a system-hang :S ). I used it for adhoc-connections only so I'm not 
sure if it would have the same problems, but at least I could scan. 
Anyway, you're free to use the kernel-module I build if you want to : 
http://fstaals.net/junk/wg311v3xp/

Good luck,

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-Frank Staals