Hello everybody, I'm starting fresh with FreeBSD 5 after my 4_STABLE system's disk ate itself, and I've been fighting with wireless adapters for a little while. I'm wondering if anyone can help me make some sense of this problem:
The machine has inside it a DLink DWL-520 card. It's a revision E, so it is not supported by wi (although wi will try to init and fail). Now that I am running FreeBSD 5.3, I've decided to give the ndisulator a shot. I had a hunch that having both ndis and wi vying for control of the device would be a badthing, so I recompiled my kernel _without_ device wi. I used the WinXP inf and sys files on the DLink install CD to make the ndis_driver_info.h. (note: the inf file gave me grief until I read somewhere that it needed a newline at the bottom to work correctly) I compiled if_ndis.ko and kldload'ed it. pciconf -l shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x80231043 chip=0x06911106 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000080 chip=0x85981106 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x060100 card=0x80231043 chip=0x06861106 rev=0x22 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:1: class=0x01018a card=0x00000000 chip=0x05711106 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:2: class=0x0c0300 card=0x12340925 chip=0x30381106 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:3: class=0x0c0300 card=0x12340925 chip=0x30381106 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:4: class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x30571106 rev=0x30 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0: class=0x028000 card=0x37001186 chip=0x38731260 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0: class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13:0: class=0x010000 card=0x38699004 chip=0x38609004 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x001a1002 chip=0x51441002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 The ndis driver seems to have initialized on pci0:10:0, but no ndis adapter shows in ifconfig -a. Troubled by this, I moved the driver object into /boot/kernel and added load_if_ndis="YES" to loader.conf, and rebooted. Maybe dmesg would tell me something important. It did: ndis0: <D-Link Air DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter(rev.E)> mem 0xd7000000-0xd7000fff irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci0 can't re-use a leaf (BusType)! ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 ndis0: NDIS ERROR: c0001394 (unknown error) ndis0: NDIS NUMERRORS: 0 ndis0: init handler failed device_attach: ndis0 attach returned 6 So that's where I am. I don't know what to make of this dmesg output. Can anyone offer some insight? Thanks, Reid _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
