It's impossible to connect my Clamshell iBook, on which I have freshly installed FreeBSD 10.0-Release, with my wireless network at home. I can't establish a connection with ifconfig and dhclient. The wifi card is the original Apple Airport (not the Extreme edition). For testing purposes, I have disabled encryption (WPA). Fix: I have installed NetBSD 6.1.3 and there it was possible to establish a connection (but only if WPA encryption is disabled). So maybe code from their wi module can be used. How-To-Repeat: In /boot/loader.conf: if_wi_load="YES" On the command line: # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wi0 up wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:10:... # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:10:... inet6 fe80::210:c6ff:fe6a:78ff%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps mode 11b status: associated ssid "" channel 0 (0 MHz) bssid 00:10:... country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 ucastrate 0 mcastrate 0 mgmtrate 0 maxretry 0 scanvalid 60 bintval 0 # ifconfig wlan0 scan # (Scan doesn't work; there are several networks in reach. But maybe the card doesn't support scanning.) # ifconfig wlan0 ssid MYSSID wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:10:... inet6 fe80::210:c6ff:fe6a:78ff%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid MYSSID channel 3 (2422 MHz 11b) country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bintval 0 # dhclient wlan0 wlan0: no link ............... giving up I have transfered everything by hand, so I can't rule out typos, and I have shortened the MAC address (00:10:...).
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-wireless Over to maintainer(s).
batch change: For bugs that match the following - Status Is In progress AND - Untouched since 2018-01-01. AND - Affects Base System OR Documentation DO: Reset to open status. Note: I did a quick pass but if you are getting this email it might be worthwhile to double check to see if this bug ought to be closed.
wi driver was removed in 2021 as part of the PC Card removal. We're sorry that we were unable to address this in a more timely manner.