Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:52:41 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@lavabit.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS Message-ID: <88D963CA-DB03-4FA3-B770-0EB4638D7A48@lavabit.com> In-Reply-To: <4BFCC5ED.6080909@bsdforen.de> References: <4BF7C455.6040806@bsdforen.de> <4BF7CDC3.8050908@bsdforen.de> <95EA8683-E0AD-48DF-9148-8DE3E368F26C@lavabit.com> <4BFCC5ED.6080909@bsdforen.de>
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On 26 May 2010, at 07:55, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > On 25/05/2010 13:57, Rui Paulo wrote: >> On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> >>> On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>>> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b): >>>> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >>>> System halted. Remove device and restart. >>>> >>>> The system boots if I turn off the wireless device in BIOS, but >>>> this means I cannot use it. >>>> >>>> Now, I could just get a BIOS image and exchange the device IDs >>>> there. But I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just reactivate the >>>> PCIe slot through the OS? >>> >>> This e-mail is written through the ath wireless I got: >>> >>> # ifconfig >>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 >>> mtu 2290 >>> ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g >>> status: associated >>> ... >>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 >>> mtu 1500 >>> ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f >>> inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255 >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g >>> status: associated >>> ssid "Obi-Wan Kenobi" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid >>> 00:15:0c:d5:37:a0 >>> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON >>> deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 >>> bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 >>> protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL >>> >>> I achieved this by passing the BIOS check with the intel wireless >>> and >>> hot-swapping it with the atheros card afterwards. This is >>> impractical >>> and evil, so I'm still searching for a solution. >>> >>> But at least I know that the device works. >> >> HP laptops really dislike the fact that your card isn't part of the >> Centrino brand, so they halt if they find an Atheros. Your best >> option is to change the Atheros card EEPROM to match the device and >> vendor id of your wpi card. Then you also need to change the ath >> driver to attach to that device id. >> >> It's evil, but it's better than hot-swapping. > > Yes, but it still sucks. And I actually have no idea how to flash the > ath device. All the instructions on this I have found use Linux. Please ask sam@FreeBSD.org about that. > > I'd prefer to flash the notebook BIOS, but I have no way to defeat > its evil compression. I think flashing the bios is more risky than fixing the EEPROM. > >> The other option is to buy a iwn card which works better in FreeBSD >> than wpi. > > Nay, this is my goodbye to Intel brand wireless. I always thought > wpa_supplicant was to blame for unreliable connections, but it > all just works with the Atheros hardware. Intel has made progress and I really think that they are on the right track to produce good cards. > > > -- > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Use the link below to report this message as spam. > https://lavabit.com/apps/teacher?sig=1117002&key=1739816679 > ____________________________________________________________________________________
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