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about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT

by PstreeM China :: Rate this Message:

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hi , everyone :

some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945
wlan card ..
after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is
not work .

i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ???
anyone can tell me ?? thank !

the /boot/loader.conf ;
####
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
if_wpi_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_amrr_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
wpifw_load="YES"
####
and after the command #/etc/rc.d/netif restart
###
bsd# /etc/rc.d/netif restart
wpa_supplicant not running? (check /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wpi0.pid).
Stopping Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0 plip0.
lo0: flags=8048<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
Starting wpa_supplicant.
ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140 user_data=0x2840e040
handler=0x8069f40
/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant
Starting Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
######
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Re: about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT

by Vincent Hoffman :: Rate this Message:

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PstreeM China wrote:

> hi , everyone :
>
> some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945
> wlan card ..
> after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is
> not work .
>
> i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ???
> anyone can tell me ?? thank !
>

8.x and later uses a different format for the wireless interfaces. See
the entry dated 20080420 in /usr/src/UPDATING

Vince

> the /boot/loader.conf ;
> ####
> legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
> if_wpi_load="YES"
> wlan_load="YES"
> wlan_amrr_load="YES"
> firmware_load="YES"
> wpifw_load="YES"
> ####
> and after the command #/etc/rc.d/netif restart
> ###
> bsd# /etc/rc.d/netif restart
> wpa_supplicant not running? (check /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wpi0.pid).
> Stopping Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0 plip0.
> lo0: flags=8048<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> status: no carrier
> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
> ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6
> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> status: no carrier
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> Starting wpa_supplicant.
> ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument
> ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140 user_data=0x2840e040
> handler=0x8069f40
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant
> Starting Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0.
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> status: no carrier
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
> ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6
> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> status: no carrier
> ######
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