From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 05:27:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBC616A4CE for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 05:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94AFE43D5C for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 05:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 31372 invoked by uid 65534); 23 May 2004 12:27:04 -0000 Received: from p5090C046.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.de) (80.144.192.70) by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 23 May 2004 14:27:04 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <40B0987C.50600@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:26:36 +0200 From: Phil Schulz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040520 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <40AF6F25.9000502@gmx.de> <40B08B32.9020401@gmx.de> <20040523113501.GA856@arthur.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040523113501.GA856@arthur.nitro.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: link up/link down on ndis0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 12:27:08 -0000 Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >On 2004.05.23 13:29:54 +0200, Phil Schulz wrote: > > >>For the sake of the archives... I also gave the ipw-driver a try and I >>discovered that the laptop doesn't turn on the radio transmitter by >>itself. Instead there is a button which, as expected, does not work >> >> > >Did you remember to load the firmware? The driver won't work before >that is done. > >The ipw(4) driver works for my Centrino WLAN card. > > > I followed the steps at [1], so I *think* I did load the firmware. Here's what I did: mars# kldload if_ipw ipw0: mem 0xe0203000-0xe0203fff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 ipw0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps mars# ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /usr/libdata/if_ipw/ipw2100-1.0.fw ipw0: Firmware image cached (uc size=8116 bytes, fw size=201050 bytes) mars# ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.1.251 netmask 0xffffffff up mars# ifconfig -a bfe0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:0a:e4:24:43:d6 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ipw0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.251 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.251 ether 00:0c:f1:2d:0e:4b media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid "" channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 mars# References: [1] http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/install.html