Has anyone here managed to get the bwi wireless on a iBook G4 to work stable?
My iBook G4 has this interface:
I've got this setup:
And this in /etc/rc.conf:
and it starts up ok at boot, the interface gets an ip address, and I can ping other machines and so on. However, after just a minute or two, the interface stops passing packets.
Am I missing something?
Additional info.
Output from dmesg related to wireless:
(this is a boot using the wired interface)
My iBook G4 has this interface:
Code:
bwi0@pci1:0:18:0: class=0x028000 card=0x4318106b chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller'
class = network
Code:
root@kg-ibook# more /boot/loader.conf
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_amrr_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
if_bwi_load="YES"
Code:
wlans_bwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
Am I missing something?
Additional info.
Output from dmesg related to wireless:
Code:
bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless Lan> mem 0x80084000-0x80085fff irq 52 at device 18.0 on pci1
bwi0: BBP: id 0x4318, rev 0x2, pkg 2
bwi0: MAC: rev 9
bwi0: PHY: type 2, rev 7, ver 3
bwi0: RF: manu 0x17f, type 0x2050, rev 8
bwi0: invalid antenna gain in sprom
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:14:51:db:c8:73