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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:14:43 -0400
From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
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To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>,
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Subject: Re: Wavelan card driver (wi) not even trying
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> Do I understand that you are using the wireless card in a bridge
> carrier on a desktop? If so, do you know which chip the bridge is
> using?
> 
> There are known problems with the new TI controller chip. I know
> Warner Losh just received a loaner card that uses the new chip in
> hopes of a quick fix for the problems. I'll have to be honest in that
> I have no personal interest in this at this time, so I may not have
> the details correct.
> 
> You will probably have better luck getting good information on this
> from freebsd-mobile. That's where the folks who maintain pccard
> support live. (Yes, I know that these cards are sometimes used in
> desktops, but the drivers were written by those who wanted to use them
> in laptops.)
> 
> FWIW, my WaveLAN works great in my ThinkPad 600E.
> 

Yes, I am using the ISA "bridge" card in a tower.

The chip on the ISA card is a Vandem VG-469.  The Card itself is listed
as a LUC Model:ISAPC-00.

Note: The following is left uncut for the new readers on freebsd-mobile.

> > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:23:33 -0400
> > From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > Hi all,
> >       I've been trying for some time now to get FreeBSD 4.0 to talk to
> > some Wavelan 11M Turbo Gold cards I have, which are in the ISA adaptors
> > on a Dell Dimention XPS P166s.  When I boot the machine, neither the
> > pccard controller nor the wi device show on the boot messages.  Not even
> > a "device wi0 not found".
> >
> > I tried putting the if_wi_enable="YES" into the loader.conf, but that
> > didn't help.
> >
> > I have also patched the wi device to use ALTQ, however this problem
> > occured before the patch.
> >
> > GENERIC also fails to see either the wi or the pccard devices.
> >
> > I'm including the boot messages and kernel config below.  Thanks.
> 
> > [Configs and logs deleted]


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