From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 6: 7:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543D237B406 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 06:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.frm2.tu-muenchen.de (hades.frm2.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.179.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EAC43F93 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 06:07:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpulz@hades.frm2.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from hades.frm2.tu-muenchen.de (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.frm2.tu-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h25E7iGi027698 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:07:44 +0100 Received: (from jpulz@localhost) by hades.frm2.tu-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.2/Submit) id h25E7i4f027696; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:07:44 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:07:44 +0100 (CET) From: "jpulz@frm2.tu-muenchen.de" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wi0 problem with cardbus Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, fist something about my sytem: Vendor: Fujitsu Siemens Model: Lifebook B2130 CPU: Intel Celeron 400MHz mobile Chipset: Intel 443MX RAM: 192M (64M builtin, 128M additional) HD: 20GB Network: Intel EtherExpress 100 Modem: Lucent LT Winmodem 56k PCMCIA: RL5C475 CardBus OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p4 the problem: i have two wireless nic's. one lucent-orinoco and one avaya. both cards should be supported by the wi driver. but if i insert these cards, i only get "wi0 init failed" (three times) and "wi0 mac read failed" (three times). here is a short excerpt of the logs: --- wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0000; event status 0x8000 wi0: init failed wi0: init failed wi0: init failed wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0021; event status 0x8000 wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0021; event status 0x8000 wi0: mac read failed 5 wi0: mac read failed 5 wi0: mac read failed 5 device_probe_and_attach: wi0 attach failed 5 --- i searched with google but the only thing i found was the information, that "init failed" means, that the initialization of the card was not succesful. also i tried the debug sysctl switches, but it gives no information about this problem. i tried a non wireless nic with the same kernel and it works without problems. card was found and initialized without any errors. next i tried the wireless cards on a FreeBSD-4.7 system, and the init process there was succesful. now i've recompiled my kernel with an OLDCARD config style. and surprise, the cards are working, without problems. so i searched the docs, and the source, but there i found nothing about problems with the wi driver and "NEWCARD". can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this problem, because i need the 32-bit cardbus support for other cards. thanks in advance regards Joerg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message