Nevermind that "almost working" comment, if I walk more than 15 feet
away from the base station the signal goes from 75 to 0. Time to dump
this cheap card. Does anyone know if ath works well with a pci 2.1?
-Matt Brenneke
On 7/9/05, Matt Brenneke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just thought I'd give an update on this thread for the archives, and
> see if anyone has an idea how to fix my WEP problem.
>
> I pulled out a new(er) p3-500 to replace the p-233 that I started this
> thread with. It still reports as pci 2.1, but the card works in
> hostap mode in this machine, mostly. If I leave security wide open, I
> can connect with my laptop and it forwards packets just fine. If I
> enable WEP, however, my laptop reports that it is unable to connect to
> the network. KisMAC still sees the network as being there, I just
> can't connect to it. Also, I keep getting the following message at the
> end of my dmesg:
> Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xd0b8da00 size 0xc0
> previous type devbuf (0xdeadbeee != 0xdeadbeef)
>
> any ideas what's up with WEP?
>
> # cat /etc/hostname.ral0
> up mediaopt hostap mode 11g chan 11 nwid "UnspunProductions"
> (connection works fine at boot with this)
>
> #ifconfig ral0 nwkey 0xa1111b2222
> (now I cannot connect from my laptops or wireless desktop)
>
> #ifconfig ral0 -nwkey
> (connecting works fine again)
>
> #dmesg
> OpenBSD 3.7-current (GENERIC) #232: Thu Jul 7 15:39:44 MDT 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 501 MHz
> cpu0:
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
> real mem = 200908800 (196200K)
> avail mem = 176496640 (172360K)
> using 2478 buffers containing 10149888 bytes (9912K) of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 10/29/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfdb70
> apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
> apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf7b60/144 (7 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
> cpu0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Rage Magnum" rev 0x00
> wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA,
> channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
> atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0
> scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HITACHI, CDR-7730, 0008> SCSI0 5/cdrom
> removable
> cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 2
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <Maxtor 91301U3>
> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 12407MB, 25410672 sectors
> wd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "Intel 82371AB USB" rev 0x01: irq 5
> usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0 at usb0
> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured
> clcs0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Cirrus Logic CS4280/46xx CrystalClear
> Audio" rev 0x01: irq 5
> ac97: codec id 0x43525903 (Cirrus Logic CS4297 rev 3)
> ac97: codec features headphone, 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, No 3D Stereo
> ral0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 9,
> address 00:12:17:63:df:2b
> ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525
> fxp0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "Intel 82557" rev 0x02: irq 10, address
> 00:a0:c9:ab:79:a7
> inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 0
> fxp1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Intel 82557" rev 0x02: irq 11, address
> 00:a0:c9:ab:79:b4
> inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 0
> isa0 at pcib0
> isadma0 at isa0
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> spkr0 at pcppi0
> sysbeep0 at pcppi0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> biomask f165 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7
> pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
> mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
> dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
> root on wd0a
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
> clcs0: firmware loaded
> audio0 at clcs0
> Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xd0b79400 size 0xc0
> previous type devbuf (0xdeadbeee != 0xdeadbeef)
> Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xd0b79300 size 0xc0
> previous type devbuf (0xdeadbeed != 0xdeadbeef)
> Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xd0b8d400 size 0x100
> previous type devbuf (0xdeadbeee != 0xdeadbeef)
> Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xd0b8da00 size 0xc0
> previous type devbuf (0xdeadbeee != 0xdeadbeef)
>
>
> On 6/21/05, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Matt Brenneke wrote:
> > | On 6/21/05, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | > Matt Brenneke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > | >
> > | > > pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xbf58
> > | >
> > | > That's your problem, right there. ral(4) needs PCI 2.2.
> > | >
> > | > Easy to miss, but it does say so in the man page, under CAVEATS.
> > | >
> > |
> > | I had read that actually, but I'm unsure what whether my motherboard
> > | supports 2.2 or really is only 2.1, since the thread from
> > | http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-03/2810.html <- that
> > post
> > |
> > | led me to believe that the pcibios version printed by OpenBSD doesn't
> > | always tell the truth.
> >
> > It does tell the truth where it concerns the pcibios version that your
> > chipset claims to support. But, from what I understand, newer chipsets
> > may not be completely 2.2 compliant, but will have the required
> > features for ral(4) to work correctly.
> >
> >
> > I've had a ral running in several motherboards, only one did not work.
> > Too bad that particular board never worked again after trying, so I'm
> > reluctant to put PCI ral in other older motherboards.
> >
> > | If the problem really is the pci version, can anyone recomend a good
> > | 802.11g card that works with PCI 2.1 and OpenBSD 3.7 and a place to
> > | buy it?
> >
> > ral appears to work with the more recent chipsets that support PCI
> > 2.1, everything from the Pentium 3-era and up I tested works. The
> > system that fried had a celeron 366 - I'm not sure the ral-card caused
> > the system to stop functioning, but that was all we changed at the
> > time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
>
> Again for archive integrity, this ral0 card did not fry my pentium 233
> box and it recognized the card fine, I just couldn't see a network or
> connect from my laptops.
>
> -Matt Brenneke
