> Benjamin Close wrote:
>> Howdy All, I'm pleased to announce the first 'official'
>> experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require
>> your help in making it become stable.
>> Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but
>> in general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not
>> yet supported).
>>
>> If you've got an Intel 3945abg wireless card, grab the tarball at:
>>
>>
>>
http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> Untar and follow the instructions in the README.
>> If you want more info about the driver, or to checkout the FAQ checkout:
>>
>>
http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
>>
>> I'm interested in all reports related to panics, things not working
>> as expected, etc.
>> The driver still has debug enabled so expect a few messages to be
>> dumped to the screen whilst in use.
>>
>> Finally, many thanks to all those that have been helping debug the
>> driver along the way.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Benjamin
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> Woei ! It's working for me so far :) Allthough I still have issues
> when switching from one tty to one other. Here the output of the
> script I am using to do the connecting :
>
> loaded the module at boot
>
> ran my script which does: ( output snipped )
>
> wlannic=wpi0
>
> # clear the selected gateway:
> route flush
>
> # Set the interface ifconfig ${wlannic} 192.168.5.5 ssid
> <SSID>
>
> # Set a new gateway
> route add default 192.168.5.1
> # make sure to give the LAN-NIC an other IP-address
> ifconfig ${lannic} 192.168.200.2
>
> ifconfig ${wlannic} up
>
> # test connection
> ping -c 1 192.168.5.1
> # start a screen session with ssh connection for
> authentication
> screen -d -m ssh -l wifi 192.168.5.1
> # wait a while before testing the connection
> sleep 3
>
> # test conn:
> ping -c 1 google.nl
>
>
>
> Everything works fine with the connection itself. Allthough sometimes
> when switching from tty9 to tty0 and back the system locks up. I've
> had it before when switching from tty1 to tty0. Anyone with the same
> problems ?
>
> Anyway; Great work on the driver so far :D
>
