daniel wrote: > Should I be able to use a mini-pci wireless card in my Net 4501? > > I've been running OpenBSD on a Net 4501 for 5-6 years now, wired-only. I > finally decided to get a wifi card so that I could use it as an AP as > well. I purchased a Wistron CM9 from Netgate and the card just does not > want to work. At first I thought it might be insufficient power--I've > been using the little power supply I purchased with the Net 4501 > (12V 1.2A). I've tried a number of other power sources all the way up to > 12V 2.5A with no luck. > > I keep seeing nic_wakeup and channel reset errors. Ultimately, the Net > 4501 always hangs. I also ripped out a pgt wireless mini-pci card from > an old SMC Barricade router and get similar errors. > > Does anyone use mini-pci wireless cards in Net 4501s? If not, that's > fine, but how can I know for sure what Soekris boards _will_ let me use > one? I just assumed that it would work and I now think my assumption was > wrong. > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >
I'm using a pgt mini-pci card that I took from a Linksys WGA54G "Wireless Game Adapter". This is under OpenBSD 4.3-RELEASE on a net4501. It *is* usable, but has some stability issues (randomly dropping wireless link, spitting errors, rarely causing a kernel panic). I've recently tried upgrading to OpenBSD 4.6. While I didn't see errors, the card wouldn't receive any data, only transmit. Here's what I get in dmesg: pgt0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Intersil Prism GT/Duette" rev 0x01: irq 10 Here's an example of the errors: pgt0: timeout waiting for management packet response to 0x17000013 pgt0: state dump: control 0x20004400 interrupt 0x80000000 pgt0: state dump: driver curfrag[] pgt0: 0x00babc6a 0x010926d2 0x00000008 0x00000000 0x000070b5 0x00006d6b pgt0: state dump: device curfrag[] pgt0: 0x00babc62 0x010926ca 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x000070b1 0x00006d6b <6>arp info overwritten for 192.168.0.90 by 00:00:00:00:00:00 on sis1 pgt0: timeout waiting for management packet response to 0x17000013 pgt0: state dump: control 0x20004400 interrupt 0x80000000 pgt0: state dump: driver curfrag[] pgt0: 0x006bf889 0x009af2c6 0x00000008 0x00000000 0x000040d0 0x000040a1 pgt0: state dump: device curfrag[] pgt0: 0x006bf881 0x009af2be 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x000040cc 0x000040a1 uvm_fault(0xd07e9980, 0x0, 0, 3) -> e kernel: page fault trap, code=0 Stopped at pgt_per_device_kthread+0x9c: movl %eax,0x4(%edx) Hopefully that information is useful. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
