WLAN Froze Startup

[AntumDeluge]

This is only the third time that I have attempted to install a BSD variant. I successfully installed PC-BSD a few years back so I decided to try it again.

Installation seemed to go smoothly and it started up on the first try. However, as soon as I tried to connect to my wireless network the system froze. Now I get the following message when I boot:

....
Setting hostname: pcbsd-121.
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:25:9c:a3:e2:c3
Starting wpa_supplicant.
ral0: need multicast update callback
ral0: need multicast update callback
ral0: need multicast update callback
ral0: need multicast update callback
wlan0: no link ....

And nothing happens from there.

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Verbose mode gives this extra information:

firmware: 'rt2561sfw' version 0: 8192 bytes loaded at 0xffffffff828d90b0

[allen875]

See if this helps, from google'ing your issue and reading thru a few pages this seemed to be an issue in freebsd 8 which may have carried thru into 9. It may not help but it's worth a shot.

Edit your rc.conf file (add the following to it)

# sudo nano /etc/rc.conf
wlans_ral0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode sta mcastrate 54 ssid (wireless.broadcast.name) channel 6"
ifconfig_wlan0="inet (your.ip.address) netmask 255.255.255.0"

You may have to modify some of that to suit your router's info.
For your reference this info came from this thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-8778.html

[AntumDeluge]

Okay, I removed the card so that it would boot into PC-BSD. Then I edited the /etc/rc.conf file like you said. I shut down the computer, re-installed the card and it booted up just fine. Unfortunately it still would not connect to the network. And when I tried to adjust the wireless settings it froze again.

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So, again I had to remove the card to boot up. Once I was back into PC-BSD I check the /etc/rc.conf file and the line:

ifconfig_wlan0="inet (my.ip.address) netmask 255.255.255.0"

Had been changed to:

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA (my.ip.address) netmask 255.255.255.0"

[commiecam]

I have tried tp install on a Compaq Presario 2200 (2218RS,64 bit Celeron-M, 1GB) and a Dell Inspiron B120 (Sempron, 2GB). In both cases, the actual installation was slick and easy. In both cases (wildly different video hardware), trying to configure the wireless lan resulted in a total freeze-up which required a forced power-off to reboot. In each case, the system rebooted into text-only mode and I could not, at my newbie level of BSD experience, find a way to start X.

This result has been repeated several times with each machine (quite a few hours and a fair amount of less than tasteful language involved), with exactly the same result each time. Both systems automatically find the wifi card and both configure wifi flawlessly when running Vectrlinux 7.0 Gold Live Edition, even without installing to hard disk; no additional drivers or firmware re needed.

On both systems automatically find ad connect to the same router when hard wire is used, and both systems appear to run flawlessly otherwise, though thePresario seems to do quite a bit of disk swapping. I feel that there is a serious bug and that, considering that the hardware is wildly different I am fairly certain tha it is in the wifi setup software.
Can anyone at least lead me in the right direction?

hanks for any assistance,
Ed