80211 patch1

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On 4/17/06, Thomas Schlesinger <schlesinger at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 16. April 2006 13:00 schrieb Sepherosa Ziehau:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have managed to port fbsd6's net80211, based on patch sumbitted by
> > Andrew Atrens and Adrian Michael Nida
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> Sepherosa,
>
> I've got working WPA finally on my ipw220. Thank you *very* much for your work
> and your support!
>
> There's left only a 'cosmetic' issue:
>
> When I use no encryption (no WEP, no WPA), I use this successfully to
> establish a network connection:
>
> /etc/rc.conf:
> ifconfig_iwi0="inet 192.168.2.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid SchlesisFunknetz
> wepmode off
>
> and /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
> iwicontrol iwi0 -d /usr/libdata/iwi_firmware
>
>
> I've modified this files to work with WPA, too, but it doesn't work:
>
> I set the IP-address in my /etc/rc.conf:
> ifconfig_iwi0="inet 192.168.2.101 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> The WPA thingy should be automagically enabled by a
> modified /etc/start_if.iwi0:

You seem to forget to load firmware before bring iwi(4) up.  Did you
have something like "Please load firmware" in your dmesg or
/var/log/messages?

> ifconfig iwi0 up
> nohup wpa_supplicant -i iwi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > /var/log/wpa.log &
> route add default 192.168.2.1
>

Cheers,
sephe

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