From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 16:18:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B617716A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a.mx.aegisnet.de (a.mx.aegisnet.de [213.238.36.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9FD43D1D for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:18:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carp@hacksocke.de) Received: (qmail 17379 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2005 16:18:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.aegisnet.biz) ([213.238.36.211]) (envelope-sender ) by a.mx.aegisnet.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Feb 2005 16:18:42 -0000 Received: from 212.202.153.78 (SquirrelMail authenticated user admin@hacksocke.de) by www.aegisnet.biz with HTTP; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:18:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <51130.212.202.153.78.1107533922.squirrel@www.aegisnet.biz> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:18:20 +0100 (CET) From: "Carsten Zimmermann" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: NDISulator and Dell wireless 1350 MiniPCI X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:18:24 -0000 Hi there, I can hardly imagine that this problem hasn't been (discussed|solved) before, but as google showed up with nothing, I'll go this way... I have aquired a Dell Insprion 1150 with a Dell wireless 1350 MiniPCI 11g card. I have compiled and loaded the ndis.ko and also the if_ndis.ko. The driver loads successfully and the interface ndis0 appears. However, I cannot change any ifconfig values through ifconfig. The interface ndis0 ignores every setting. `sysctl -a |grep ndis0` returns no entries, so changing preferences via sysctl is also not possible. I used the recent Dell drivers from their website (R83097.EXE), expanded the selfextracting archive through wine and found two(!) *.inf and *.sys files. I don't exactly know which drivers to chose, there were subdirs called "AR" and "IR" with same contents (well they do differ in filesize). I tried both drivers. The *.inf file is a utf-16 little endian file, as file(1) told me. `iconv -f UTF-16LE -t ASCII` couldn't convert, so what I did was deleting the blurb of UTF-16 locale strings out of the file and conversion went to a success. I don't know if this might have caused the problem I am encountering. Has anyone some hints or succes stories for me? Thanks a lot! - Carsten -- Carsten Zimmermann // GERMANY // PGP: http://hacksocke.de/public_key.asc