Re: Wifi Card for laptop
Le 21/11/2008 à 09:48:17+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit Hi, Hmmm, that's a bit bad. Is `Fn+F2' the key that turns wireless OFF/ON for this laptop? Maybe the driver is crashing because the device detaches and re-attaches while the driver is stuck somewhere :( If you think you can grab a kernel dump from this, maybe it's going to be useful to debug the problem. OK I find the problem (and solve-it ;-). In the bios there some (very strange for me) configuration for the wifi card, it seem it's same card to handle wifi and bluetooth. And when I pres Fn+F2 he switch to bluetooth and my laptop crash... So because I don't have any bluetooth device I don't use it. After disabling bluetooth in the bios everything work fine. No driver (and of course not working) NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCIe I don't see `BCM5756' or `5756' anywhere in the manpages or the source of the kernel in of 8.0-CURRENT either. I think this is not supported :( So that answer my question about change to current... usable memory = 4278091776 (4079 MB) avail memory = 4124418048 (3933 MB) Heh, nice. I see you are running an amd64 build of FreeBSD, and there are *lots* of memory on this laptop :) Yes I known ;-) One of the tests you can run, to find out what is broken in wpi(4), is to build a kernel with DDB/KDB support, and grab a kernel dump when the wpi(4) interface stops working. The ``Developer's Handbook'' can help you build a debugging kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Using DDB to trace through the `live' kernel while it is stuck is a bit tricky, but if you manage to grab some of the DDB output (i.e. with a serial console or even just a photograph with a camera), then we can mail the developers of wpi(4) and ask them for more help :) OK. When I've some time I going to do this. Best Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Lun 24 nov 2008 11:11:03 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:55:35 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). Hi Albert, If you can find a PC-CARD (or `PCMCIA') that uses one of the supported chipsets, then just go for it. To see if the internal network interface card or wireless adapter work, you can try running: % pciconf -lv Save this to a text file: % pciconf -lv pciconf.txt Then you can use a USB flash drive to transfer the text file to a machine that has email connectivity and post it here. We can try to go through the list of devices and check hardware compatibility for you. If you do that, please include as much information as possible about the FreeBSD version you are using, and any other bits you think are useful to understand what hardware you are using (i.e. laptop model, laptop maker, the output of the ``uname -a'' command, and so on). My local dealer have those card : Netgear WPN511 RangeMax Netgear WG511 | PCMCIA WiFi D-LINK DWA-610 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC A list of the chipsets listed in the FreeBSD manpages is below. See if you can find out which chipsets these cards use, and try to find one that matches at least one FreeBSD driver: an -- Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver o Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 series o Cisco Aironet 340 and 350 series o Xircom Wireless Ethernet Adapter ath -- Atheros IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver The ath driver provides support for wireless network adapters based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 programming APIs. ipw -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver iwi -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 driver The iwi driver provides support for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG MiniPCI and 2225BG PCI network adapters. iwn -- Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN IEEE 802.11n driver The iwn driver provides support for Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN PCI-Express network adapters. ral -- Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver The ral driver supports PCI/CardBus wireless adapters based on the Ralink Technology RT2500, RT2501, and RT2600 chipsets. rum -- Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device The rum driver supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Mini Card wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets. wi -- Lucent Hermes, and Intersil PRISM IEEE 802.11 driver See the online manpage for a large listing of supported cards. wpi -- Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 driver See the online manpage for more details about supported cards. zyd -- ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device See the online manpage for a large listing of supported cards. You can find the original manpages online too. Some of the manpages [like ral(4) and rum(4)] have more detailed device listings, that may be interesting to skim through. Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-) Let's see what ``pciconf -lv'' shows. It may be a supported NIC, but not in the `GENERIC' kernel configuration. Loading a module may bring it up, and then you will at least have *some* sort of networking. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
Le 20/11/2008 à 11:35:20+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit Hi, First thanks you for you help In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver. If you can find a PC-CARD (or `PCMCIA') that uses one of the supported chipsets, then just go for it. To see if the internal network interface card or wireless adapter work, you can try running: % pciconf -lv Save this to a text file: % pciconf -lv pciconf.txt Then you can use a USB flash drive to transfer the text file to a machine that has email connectivity and post it here. We can try to go through the list of devices and check hardware compatibility for you. If you do that, please include as much information as possible about the FreeBSD version you are using, and any other bits you think are useful to understand what hardware you are using (i.e. laptop model, laptop maker, the output of the ``uname -a'' command, and so on). But if I can help to make more hardware working on FreeBSD I would happy to do that so let's go: Hardware : Dell laptop Precision M6300 Running wihtout problem: touchpad X11 (using nv drivers but not the «official» because I'm running amd64 version). running but with some problem : wifi card : chipset 3945 drivers : wpi (compiling in kernel) problem : sometime the wifi go down (the AP is at 1m) and when I try to make that up again he don't work. If I try the keyboard touch (Fn+F2) that's can crash (reboot) the computer Find drivers but not running : sound. I got [root@ ~]# dmesg|grep pcm pcm0: Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xf6ffc000-0xf6ff irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0 pcm0: [ITHREAD] pcm0: HDA Codec: Sigmatel STAC9205 pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20080420_0052 [root@ ~]# but I don't have dsp device in my /dev so no sound No driver (and of course not working) NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCIe USB ports working. I've not try Firewire, pccard, MIC. I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE make after csup (with tag=RELENG_7) and make buildworld;kernel. I can make «any» test you want. Just ask me. Bests regards. Here my pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x2a008086 rev=0x0c hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Express Processor to DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x2a018086 rev=0x0c hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Express PCIe Root Port' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:26:0: class=0x0c0300 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28348086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:26:1: class=0x0c0300 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28358086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:26:7: class=0x0c0320 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x283a8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '81EC1043 (?) ICH8 Enhanced USB2 Enhanced Host Controller' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x284b8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H SUBSYS_81EC1043REV_02\3115836590D8' class = multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:0: class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x283f8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 1' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:1: class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28418086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 2' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:3: class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28458086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 4' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:5: class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28498086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 6' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:29:0:
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
Le 21/11/2008 à 01:43:29+0100, Albert Shih a écrit Le 20/11/2008 à 11:35:20+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit After some google I find the patch http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ for the sound problem. Find drivers but not running : sound. I got [root@ ~]# dmesg|grep pcm pcm0: Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xf6ffc000-0xf6ff irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0 pcm0: [ITHREAD] pcm0: HDA Codec: Sigmatel STAC9205 pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20080420_0052 [root@ ~]# Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Ven 21 nov 2008 02:35:39 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:29 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First thanks you for you help In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver. That's nice, yes. The wpi(4) driver seems to support the chipset of your wlan adapter :) Running wihtout problem: touchpad X11 (using nv drivers but not the «official» because I'm running amd64 version). running but with some problem : wifi card : chipset 3945 drivers : wpi (compiling in kernel) problem : sometime the wifi go down (the AP is at 1m) and when I try to make that up again he don't work. If I try the keyboard touch (Fn+F2) that's can crash (reboot) the computer Hmmm, that's a bit bad. Is `Fn+F2' the key that turns wireless OFF/ON for this laptop? Maybe the driver is crashing because the device detaches and re-attaches while the driver is stuck somewhere :( If you think you can grab a kernel dump from this, maybe it's going to be useful to debug the problem. No driver (and of course not working) NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCIe I don't see `BCM5756' or `5756' anywhere in the manpages or the source of the kernel in of 8.0-CURRENT either. I think this is not supported :( I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE make after csup (with tag=RELENG_7) and make buildworld;kernel. I can make «any» test you want. Just ask me. usable memory = 4278091776 (4079 MB) avail memory = 4124418048 (3933 MB) Heh, nice. I see you are running an amd64 build of FreeBSD, and there are *lots* of memory on this laptop :) One of the tests you can run, to find out what is broken in wpi(4), is to build a kernel with DDB/KDB support, and grab a kernel dump when the wpi(4) interface stops working. The ``Developer's Handbook'' can help you build a debugging kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Using DDB to trace through the `live' kernel while it is stuck is a bit tricky, but if you manage to grab some of the DDB output (i.e. with a serial console or even just a photograph with a camera), then we can mail the developers of wpi(4) and ask them for more help :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wifi Card for laptop
Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). So I just want to known what 802.11G card I can buy without drivers problem. My local dealer have those card : Netgear WPN511 RangeMax Netgear WG511 | PCMCIA WiFi D-LINK DWA-610 D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-) Regards. JAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
Albert Shih([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 15:55:35 +0100: Netgear WPN511 RangeMax Netgear WG511 | PCMCIA WiFi D-LINK DWA-610 D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC The Ralink chipset is well supported, and they are cheap cards. I have this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315047 It works well even in host-ap mode, good reception. Did I mention cheap?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site for hardware compatibility. FreeBSD supports a lot of wireless cards. sometimes even more works using driver converter (ndisgen) that converts windows XP drivers. But performance may (will) be lower. Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-) what it is? FreeBSD supports most (but not all) network cards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
Le 18/11/2008 à 16:43:47+0100, Wojciech Puchar a écrit D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site for hardware compatibility. FreeBSD supports a lot of wireless cards. sometimes even more works using driver converter (ndisgen) that converts windows XP drivers. But performance may (will) be lower. After some research on Internet (with other machine ;-) ) I finaly make the wifi card working. Using wpi driver. Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-) what it is? FreeBSD supports most (but not all) network cards It's Broadcom 5756. I known it's very close to 57xx but...it's not working. Thanks for your help. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Mar 18 nov 2008 23:50:01 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:55:35 am Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). So I just want to known what 802.11G card I can buy without drivers problem. My local dealer have those card : [snip] Trendnet TEW-441PC I ordered this card from newegg not long ago. It's inexpensive and well-supported by the ath(4) driver (unlike the (slightly cheaper) other trendnet card you mentioned). JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
