Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:14:43 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wavelan card driver (wi) not even trying Message-ID: <39661003.A7E0F09B@mitre.org> References: <200007071535.e67FZZn24602@ptavv.es.net>
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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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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