No, just give Bermhard time to see and reply :)
adrian On 10 October 2012 06:51, Denise H. G. <darc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2012/10/10 at 12:32, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Denise H. G. <darc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012/10/09 at 00:44, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Denise H. G. <darc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi list, >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried ipw, iwn, and iwi, but ended up with no luck. What's more, it >>>>>> seems that the wireless adapter has not been even detected by the >>>>>> system. I ran 'pciconf -l' and got this line which seems to be my >>>>>> wireless adapter: >>>>>> >>>>>> none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x42228086 chip=0x08918086 >>>>>> rev=0xc4 hdr=0x00 >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there a driver for that under FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Man page for iwi says >>>>> The iwi driver provides support for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG >>>>> >>>>> Do you have legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in loader.conf ? >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps you need to check if the device id is listed in the source code? >>>> >>>> Yes. Some vendors (e.g. Lenovo, HP) have private PCIIDs on their >>>> cards, so they may not be in the source. Adding them is trivial, but, >>>> should this be the issue, please open a PR to have it added to the >>>> source in SVN. >>> >>> I tried to add some device ids into the source code of the drivers, but >>> with no luck. Maybe I am doing it the wrong way. >> >> The card ID in the code is 4220 and yours has is 4222. Edit >> /sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c and add: >> { 0x8086, 0x4222, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG" }, >> after line 123. >> >> If you are loading the module, you can just rebuild that. Otherwise >> you will need to rebuild the kernel. If you are not familiar with >> building a module, rebuilding the whole thing, kernel and modules, is >> probably the best idea. >> >> Note that I don't currently have any 2200BG card, so I have not done >> any testing. I looked at the pci.ids file and it does not seem to have >> an entry for 0x4220, but does have one for 0x4222, so I am a bit >> confused, but the pci.ids file is not relevant to the driver. It's >> just an oddity. > > Thanks for your help. I've added the card's id to if_iwn.c and rebuilt > the kernel. When system boots, the card is recognized. But the driver > says it cannot load the firmware for this specific card. I guess more > work is to be done to get this card running. > > I took a look at the code in if_iwn.c. It seems it is pretty hard coded > for the known cards. If a new card is to be supported, much work may be > needed to do it. > > Anyway, thank you. I think I might need a USB wireless solution now. > >> -- >> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >> E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"