Hi all,

After seeing Casper's posting about the bcmndis driver being a bit
iffy after build 40-something, and a desire to try to stick to stuff
that's supported out of the box as much as possible, I recently
replaced my Ferrari 3400's mini-PCI wifi card with an Atheros-based
one, specifically the Wistron CM9.

After powering up the laptop (and issuing a devfsadm for good measure),
I tried plumbing ath0:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ifconfig ath0 plumb               

No immediate errors, but shortly thereafter, I get repeated messages
on the console from the ath driver:

ath: ieee80211_recv_auth(): authentication failed (reason 1) for 
00:13:10:xx:xx:xx

(What's reason 1?) Issuing a scan gives questionable results too:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wificonfig -i ath0 scan           
essid           bssid             type          encryption      signallevel
wifi-gw         00:13:10:xx:xx:xx access point  none            0
2WIRE200        00:18:3f:aa:9d:49 access point  WEP             0
default         00:13:46:14:b2:0c access point  none            0
Heeter          00:13:46:46:c3:c2 access point  WEP             0
Sunvalley       00:16:b6:18:cc:de access point  WEP             0

The signal for my access point (wifi-gw) at least should be much higher than
0; 10 would be more usual!

I've tried wiring up the antenna wires both ways (i.e., I've connected
each to the Main and Aux terminals), with no changes.  The only other
piece of pertinent info I can think of is that my access point only
allows connections from the list of permitted MAC addresses.  I've added
the MAC address of the new card to that list and checked it several times.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?  (BTW, an upgrade to the current build
is on the books, but I was hoping to test the new wifi card first.)

TIA,

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