Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I was not aware rc.conf was so sensitive to white space ... I even think it shouldn't. rc.conf script is run by /bin/sh, one can test syntax by typing : /bin/sh . /etc/rc.conf set Good luck. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich

WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Hello everyone, I'm doing my first FreeBSD install (10.0) on an old laptop with an Intel 3945 interface. During the install I already noticed strange behaviour since the installer gave me a DHCP lease failed. The second time it passed. FWIW, I installed with root on ZFS and the laptop has

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Chris cc wireless@ After reading quite some man pages, I finally have my laptop set up as follows : /etc/rc.conf : ifconfig_wlan0 = ssid myssid ifconfig_wlan0 =mode 11g ifconfig_wlan0 =-bgscan ifconfig_wlan0 = WPA DHCP ( I prefer wired nets only fumble with wireless when I must, but

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! It's a shell script config file. You have multiple lines, they're evaluated in order. so effectively what you've put in is: ifconfig_wlan0 = WPA DHCP .. now, I suggest you just do that. Ie, you don't need the rest of them anyway at least to get it working. What's in the kernel log? Type

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Adrian, now I understand why I have to put everything on one line :) I tried what you suggested (only WPA DHCP) and that what's the intial install generated too. But in that case my wireless does not connect to my ssid and keeps on scanning all channels and never connects ... That's why I

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Ok. Just try it manually - * comment out stuff from /etc/rc.conf and reboot * ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 -bgscan * wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf * ifconfig wlan0 list scan - you haven't pasted that here, so we have no idea what APs it is seeing then see. If you

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Yeah, that's the same problem at iwn - the firmware rejects any frames being transmitted to 5ghz passive channels until a beacon is received. It's likely some buffering in net80211 and/or the driver(s) is required. It's not breaking regulatory - the NIC already scanned the channel and heard a

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
(and please file a separate bug for the 5ghz problem with wpi, so I can dump this into the bug.0 thanks! -a On 23 August 2014 14:02, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Yeah, that's the same problem at iwn - the firmware rejects any frames being transmitted to 5ghz passive channels until

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Ther'es two separate problems; 5ghz transmit, and your connectivity Oh, the third thing to try after all that manual stuff? dhclient wlan0 Then see if it successfully gets an IP address. -a ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Van Steenlandt
Indeed, I forgot about dhcp :( If I do that, it works ok. What I did notice after 'dhclient wlan0' is after a while the message : dhclient [2628]: send_packet : No buffer space available Chris On 23-08-14 23:58, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, Ther'es two separate problems; 5ghz transmit, and your