Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-08-04 Thread Edd Barrett
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:22:20AM +, Alexander Holupirek wrote: > ... maybe netstart(8) can help? I used when trashing my wireless > configuration. Quoting from netstart(8): > > After the system is completely initialized, it is possible to start a > newly created interface or bridge(4), or

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-08-01 Thread Alexander Holupirek
Nick Guenther gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Edd Barrett gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If you get the wep key (or network name) wrong when configuring iwi network > > drivers the card becomes useless until you reboot. This is annoying when at > > a friends house and I

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-10 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After that, I can't even make nfe(4) run. After iwi is boned, also my fxp is boned. Same situation different hardware. I mailed damien pointing at this thread, but no reply. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bourne

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-10 Thread Daniel B.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > If you get the wep key (or network name) wrong when configuring iwi network > drivers the card becomes useless until you reboot. This is annoying when at a > friends house and I mistype the key for example. I have tried taking the > interface down a

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-03 Thread Pau
Edd, yes, I have seen this and also wondered. my experience with centrino is: 1) Damien's drivers work better than anything linux. If you get the connection, you have and keep it 2) But... if you want to change to another access point, cat /var/log/messages will show messages like "fatal fi

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-03 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you get the wep key (or network name) wrong when configuring iwi > network drivers the card becomes useless until you reboot. > > Is there a way of resetting the card altogether? I don't use WEP, so this may not be applicable, but when the card become

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-03 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, Pau wrote: I have a similar problem. If you look at /var/log/messages, you'll see that this seems to be related to the firmware. I also have noetd that I do not have that problem on my thinkpad t41 laptop, where I have an ath0. With that card I do not get any problem. 2008/7/3 Matthew Demp

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-03 Thread Pau
I have a similar problem. If you look at /var/log/messages, you'll see that this seems to be related to the firmware. I also have noetd that I do not have that problem on my thinkpad t41 laptop, where I have an ath0. With that card I do not get any problem. 2008/7/3 Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-02 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried pulling it out? I think iwi(4) is only Mini-PCI, so removing it's not any easier than rebooting. :-)

Re: Iwi, wireless bad behavior

2008-07-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If you get the wep key (or network name) wrong when configuring iwi network > drivers the card becomes useless until you reboot. This is annoying when at > a friends house and I mistype the key for example. I have trie