Wireless problems

From: Will Ellis-Adams <admin(at)reifier.org>
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 15:00:18 EST

A while back I had mailed misc about my prism based nic that gave me this at boot time:

awi0 at pcmcia 0 function 0 "AMD, Am79C930, ": AMD AM79C930 : irq 3awi0: failed to complete selftest (timeout) awi0: failed to attach controller

This card is not broken, it works in another system.

When I unplug and re-insert the card while the system is running I get:

awi0 at pcmcia 0 function 0 "AMD, Am79C930, ": AMD AM79C930 irq3Dec31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: awi0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "AMD, Am79C930, ": AMD AM79C930
Dec31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: awi0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "AMD, Am79C930, ": AMD AM79C930
awi0: IEEE802.11 DS 2Mbps (firmware PCnetMobile:v2.01 101498 API005) awi0: address 00:e0:ec:00:1b:cd

Dec 31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: : irq 3
Dec 31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: : irq 3
Dec 31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: awi0: IEEE802.11 DS 2Mbps (firmware

PCnetMobile:v2.01 101498 API005)
Dec 31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: awi0: IEEE802.11 DS 2Mbps (firmware PCnetMobile:v2.01 101498 API005)
Dec 31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: awi0: address 00:e0:ec:00:1b:cd Dec 31 09:38:36 nec /bsd: awi0: address 00:e0:ec:00:1b:cd

at this point awi0 shows up in ifconfig as: awi0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

    nwind
    media: IEEE802.11 DS2 adhoc
    status: no network

and none of the 3 lights on the card come on (although they do flicker when the card is plugged in)

I don't know much about how to configure wireless cards in OpenBSD because I have not gotten any to work yet :)

But when I try 'ifconfig awi0 192.168.1.184 netmask 255.255.255.0 up' the whole system hangs and I cannot get it back without a manual reboot.

Does this seem like the card is not compatible with this laptop? It is not a cardbus card and my laptop does not support cardbus I guess. Do you still need cardbus support to run this card? I am lost.

        Thanks, Will Received on Tue Dec 31 15:06:35 2002