Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
Hello, I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in either of my dell laptops. The card only has its power LED on for about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7), then it goes off. dhclient causes the link LED to blink in a very consistent manner but it never aquires any info from DHCP server. 'wicontrol -i ath0 -l' shows the correct wireless nets in the immediate area. 'ifconfig' shows correct info. My entire dmesg is appended to the bottom of this message. The card behaves the same on both my dell 5100 and my dell 1100. Thought maybe it was a bad card so I returned it and picked up another (same make and model)... but it behaves exactly the same. Its a Blitzz BWP 712 Super G (Atheros 5212)... wal-mart special. It behaves as described wether its inserted before I boot... or after it boots and I'm logged in. I have device ath device ath_hal device wlan I have a dhclient.conf with something to the effect of: media ssid wLAN_SSID channel 1 weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x35CE7F608436C02D11583BDB7F3; Other (maybe unimportant) things: ACPI is on... APM is off. #option SMP AGP is on DRM is on Tried disabling PC Card support and just leaving Cardbus support... no go. I suspect I have something misconfigured with respect to the pcmcia slot... but that's just a guess. Any/All help is appreciated. -- Regards, Eric dmesg follows: == Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #8: Tue Oct 19 08:29:06 CDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON5100 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (2657.82-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE real memory = 536645632 (511 MB) avail memory = 515461120 (491 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: DELL CPi R on motherboard Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 acpi_acad0: AC Adapter on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: Control Method Battery on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82845G host to AGP bridge mem 0xe000-0xe7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 drm0: ATI Radeon LW Mobility 7500 M7 port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfcff-0xfcff,0xe800-0xefff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 29.7 (no driver attached) pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 bfe0: Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaff irq 5 at device 1.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on bfe0 bmtphy0: BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY on miibus0 bmtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:56:b4:f1:50 bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ndis0: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card mem 0xfaffc000-0xfaffdfff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:69:39:7c ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps cbb0: TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 4.0 on pci2 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xfaff4000-0xfaff7fff,0xfaffb800-0xfaffbfff irq 11 at device 4.1 on
Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:58 am, Eric Schuele wrote:
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:22 am, Eric Schuele wrote:
Hello,
I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in
either of my dell laptops. The card only has its power LED on for
about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7),
then it goes off. dhclient causes the link LED to blink in a very
consistent manner but it never aquires any info from DHCP server.
I should also note that it will not associate with any WAP even when
I force all settings (IP address, wepkey, etc..)...
Thanks,
When I moved to FreeBSD 5*, I found that I had to remove certain
wireless configuration options that worked in FreeBSD 4*. That was
with a wi device; but the later configuration works well with my new
atheros devices.
I'm using the following atheros products successfully:
D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1)
D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD 5.2.1)
FYI: D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail boxes of its
atheros chipset products; which should make purchasing these easier.
I use the script below, with a real wep code and different IP addresses,
for each of these devices. Other than setting hostname info
in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, I haven't edited any other network
configuration files.
(Beware the effects of email wordwrap.)
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0
NIC=ath0
case $1 in
start)
ifconfig ${NIC} inet 192.168.42.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid datawok
wepmode on wepkey 0x11
route add default 192.168.42.1
echo search cablelynx.com /etc/resolv.conf
echo nameserver 24.204.0.4 /etc/resolv.conf
echo nameserver 24.204.0.5 /etc/resolv.conf
echo ${NIC}
;;
dyn)
ifconfig ${NIC} ssid datawok wepmode on wepkey 0x11
dhclient ${NIC}
echo ${NIC}
;;
stop)
[ -s /var/run/dhclient.pid ] kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.pid`
rm /var/run/dhclient.pid
ifconfig ${NIC} remove
echo ${NIC} removed
;;
status)
ifconfig ${NIC}
;;
*)
echo usage: /usr/local/etc/${NIC} [start|dyn|stop|status]
;;
esac
##end of script
Best of luck,
Andrew Gould
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Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 01:38 pm, scott renna wrote: Andrew, Just saw your post and was wondering how you were able to get the Dlink-G520 to work. I'm running 5.2.1 currently and tried to add additional devices into my kernel according to a post I found on the subject: they mention to add: device ath_hal # Dlink Support device hal # Dlink card support and recompile the kernel however my 5.2 says it doesn't know what hal is. have you gotten that dlink to work on 5.2.1 or just 5.3? -scott Replace device hal with device ath.:-) Dr. Seuss could have had such fun with a kernel config file! Also, if you comment out unused hardware devices, make sure you didn't comment out device wlan. (yep, this is the mistake I made.) Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:47 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
I'm using the following atheros products successfully:
D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1)
D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD
5.2.1)
I went out a grabbed a DWL-G650. It needed a little encouragement, but
not much. It began _trying_ to associate immediately.. but kept flip
flopping from b/g/b/g... so I forced it to g and it works fine. Not
sure what was up with the Blitzz cards. They have the same chipset.
FYI: D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail boxes of
its atheros chipset products; which should make purchasing these
easier.
I use the script below, with a real wep code and different IP
addresses, for each of these devices. Other than setting hostname
info in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, I haven't edited any other
network configuration files.
(Beware the effects of email wordwrap.)
I have not tried the script yet, but would like to. I'm still a bit new
to BSD/*nix How does it work? Its under the rc.d folder so it
runs automagically right. Who/what provides the parameter you switch
on? and under what circumstances would each case get executed?
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0
NIC=ath0
case $1 in
start)
ifconfig ${NIC} inet 192.168.42.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid
datawok wepmode on wepkey 0x11
Thanks for the help!
--
Regards,
Eric
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Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 09:33 pm, Eric Schuele wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:47 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I'm using the following atheros products successfully: D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1) D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD 5.2.1) I went out a grabbed a DWL-G650. It needed a little encouragement, but not much. It began _trying_ to associate immediately.. but kept flip flopping from b/g/b/g... so I forced it to g and it works fine. Not sure what was up with the Blitzz cards. They have the same chipset. FYI: D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail boxes of its atheros chipset products; which should make purchasing these easier. I use the script below, with a real wep code and different IP addresses, for each of these devices. Other than setting hostname info in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, I haven't edited any other network configuration files. (Beware the effects of email wordwrap.) I have not tried the script yet, but would like to. I'm still a bit new to BSD/*nix How does it work? Its under the rc.d folder so it runs automagically right. Who/what provides the parameter you switch on? and under what circumstances would each case get executed? /snip/ Thanks for the help! I put the script under /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. FreeBSD will attempt to execute any file in that directory that ends with .sh during bootup and shutdown. During bootup, it will execute the file with the argument start. During shutdown, it will execute the file with the argument stop. In the script's current state, ath0 is configured at bootup with a static IP address. To use dhcp after bootup, root would have to execute the following commands: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 stop /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 dyn The first command would undo the static IP configuration. The second command would execute dhclient per the dyn section of the script. If you wanted to use dhcp at bootup, you would have to change start) to something else; and then change dyn) to start). Please note that if your using the script for a pccard, the card needs to be inserted prior to bootup for configuration to occur automatically. If not, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 start would need to be executed manually after bootup. I hope this helps. Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
