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      Blammo last edited by

      Had one sitting around, put it in a PFSense box, kernel seems to find it, interface seems to be up, configured in AP mode, never shows up on searches from client PC's. Here's what ifconfig shows:

      an0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
              inet6 fe80::240:96ff:fe33:b2f1%an0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
              inet 192.168.3.129 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 192.168.3.255
              ether 00:40:96:33:b2:f1
              media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
              status: no carrier
              ssid  1:my.ssid.here channel 6
              stationname Aironet4500
              authmode SHARED privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 0 rtsthreshold 0
              mcastrate 0 fragthreshold 0 bmiss 0 roaming DEVICE

      Two things might be part of the problem:

      1. in the web interface, one of the required elements "Standard" is an empty dropdown.
      2. "status: no carrier"

      Any ideas?</up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

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        sloan last edited by

        Hey I have one of these laying around also.  I have been thinking about putting some other distro on this also.  Have you had any luck with your 4800.  Maybe you could let me know if anything works for you?

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          hoba last edited by

          we read the capabilities of these cards to fill the dropdowns with values. I guess this card doesn't return and values or needs a different command to list them. However, none of the devs has such a card to test or make it work.

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            Blammo last edited by

            @hoba:

            we read the capabilities of these cards to fill the dropdowns with values. I guess this card doesn't return and values or needs a different command to list them. However, none of the devs has such a card to test or make it work.

            I'm wondering if that's behind it not working…  Is there some way I can force a value? Or some "show" I can run from the command line to dump as much info as possible for the devs to see? Here's the info from dmesg:

            an0: <aironet pci4800="">port 0xd480-0xd4ff,0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xfde00000-0xfde0007f irq 16 at device 6.0 on pci2
            an0: got RSSI <-> dBM map
            an0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
            an0: Ethernet address: 00:40:96:33:b2:f1
            an0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

            ifconfig an0

            an0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
                    inet6 fe80::240:96ff:fe33:b2f1%an0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                    inet 192.168.3.129 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 192.168.3.255
                    ether 00:40:96:33:b2:f1
                    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
                    status: no carrier
                    ssid  1:my.ssid.here channel 6
                    stationname ""
                    authmode SHARED privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 0 rtsthreshold 0
                    mcastrate 0 fragthreshold 0 bmiss 0 roaming DEVICE

            other thing I noticed, "Channel" is also not changable from "auto"…</up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></aironet>

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              hoba last edited by

              Databeestje wrote the capabilities detection code for the wireless settings. Maybe he can get in contact with you to work on this (if you open your system for him to test). However, databeestje is a busy guy so it's completely up to him if he wants to dive into this or if he has some time.

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                Blammo last edited by

                Happy to open that door, if he'll contact me PM'd here.

                Love to see the card work.

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