OBSD 3.9 RTL8185 WIFI Finding Access Point and Setup

[Michael Seney]

Yeah I had tried that also but no such luck. Luckily
for me I found someone who had an Orinoco (Prism2
Chipset) Wi-Fi Card for sale and it's working without
a hitch. Just #dhclient wi0 and like Emeril says
"Bam".

--- Nick Guenther <kousue at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/17/06, Michael Seney <michael_seney at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > RTL8185 WIFI Card on OpenBSD 3.9 in a Thinkpad
> 600e
> >
> > Dmesg:
> > rtw0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 irq 11
> > rtw0: ver RTL8185, radio RTL8225, address
> > 00:0e:2e:8a:3a:4d
> >
> > #ifconfig -M rtw0 results in "none"
> >
> > I tried using Kismet which runs but for some
> reason
> > doesn't find the Access Point either and fills
> dmesg
> > with a lot of "rtw0: unknown rate #'s" until you
> exit
> > kismet.
> >
> > I put the same "new" WIFI card in another Thinkpad
> > running XP Pro and it worked flawlessly.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! - Mike
> >
> Perhaps if you did
> ifconfig rtw0 up
> first?
> 
> Wifi cards are flakey, though realteks should work
> well on OpenBSD.
> 


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