Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:52:06 -0400 From: "Yuri Lukin" <lists@swaggi.com> To: Luis Neves <luis.neves@co.sapo.pt>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure Message-ID: <20071026144413.M17608@swaggi.com> In-Reply-To: <4721F8A8.3010501@co.sapo.pt> References: <4721F8A8.3010501@co.sapo.pt>
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote > Hi all. > So far I've failed to have a working wireless connection with this combination. > > There are no FreeBSD drivers for the included intel 4965AG card. > I've tried to use the ndiswrapper framework without success. The > ndisgen wizard runs without issues, but kldloading the driver > freezes and reboots the machine. I dont think there's any support for this card in FreeBSD just yet. > > I've also tried two cardbus devices. > > The Cisco Aironet - AIR CB21AG (ath driver): > > Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x0 > > Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xbfeb0000- > 0xbfebffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 > Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: ath0: [ITHREAD] > Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL > status 13 > Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 > FWIW, I have a T61 (not the "p" version) with 7.0-PRERELEASE from Oct 15th and have an integrated IBM miniPCI card that uses the ath driver without any problems: ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdf2f0000-0xdf2fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2 You should have no issues using the CB21AG adapter under FreeBSD. I have several of these and have used them as far back as 6.0-RELEASE on multiple laptops without any issues. In fact, I just dug one up and inserted it into my T61 and it attached to ath1: ath1: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath1: [ITHREAD] ath1: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath1: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 radio 3.6 > and the Conceptronic C54RC (ral driver): > I have no experience with these. > I'm running: > uname -a > > FreeBSD t61p 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Fri Oct 26 13:10:37 > WEST 2007 root@t61p:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > GENERIC kernel with ULE and without debugging. > > Is there anything I can do to diagnose these issues? > What does dmesg show for "ath" when you boot? Or can you post "pciconf -l -v"? -Yuri
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