I'm working on a small neiborhood wide network with some friends of mine
and I'm have a big problem with my BSD box.  I'm running FreeBSD 4.3.. I
think, I just cvsup'd to RELENG_4.

I have a Lucent Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card and the PCI adapter to stick it
in a stanard PC.

I have my kernal recompiled and I see the orinoco device (wi0).  It apears
to be fine too, I was able to use /usr/sbin/wicontrol to set it to peer to
peer and the correct network name.  I have the ipconfigured and the
routing table looks good.

I have a couple laptops with Win98 and Win2k on them to test out our
hack job antennas.  This laptop can even see the other card.  I can do a
Link Test useing the win32 orinoco utilites.  It should mean that the two
cards are transmiting properly and on the same network.

All seams well and good... except.  Every time I try to use the interface
I get this:

/kernel: wi0: watchdog timeout

Aparently the TI controler on the PCI card is programmed to use ISA
interrupts and this isn't supported under FreeBSD-STABLE.  From what I
have been reading, somewhere, there is a magic patch that will make all my
problems go away.  Does anyone know where this patch is?  And how the heck
I install it?  They say it works under -current... the last time I tried
FreeBSD current I couldn't even boot after the update, I would like to
stay with stable.  If current will fix my problem, I will give it a try
but I'm new to this whole unix thing.

Is there another way around this?  Has anyone else had experiance with
these lucent cards under BSD?

Thanks,

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Leo Clark
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