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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:16:07 -0700
From:      Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com>
To:        Antonio Varela Lizardi <antonio@icon.net.mx>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with WaveLAN Card
Message-ID:  <20000925111607.Q10523@schooner.svjava.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009251109370.65080-100000@asterix.icon.net.mx>; from antonio@icon.net.mx on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:11:51AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009251109370.65080-100000@asterix.icon.net.mx>

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:11:51AM -0700, Antonio Varela Lizardi wrote:
> 
> Apollogies in advance for the crossposting, but my deadline related to this
> matter it's very close.
> 
>   I have a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 11Mbps PCMCIA Card, a Texas Instrument
> (chipset recognized as 1225) PCMCIA-PCI Cardbus bridge (sold by lucent), a
> regular Desktop PC and FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE. I just cannot get the card to
> work. It's recognized sucessfully by pccardd, but I'm having an error: "tx
> buffer allocation failed" with any network operation over the card. Diggin
> out more, I've found that wi_seek( ) it's failing with a WI_TIMEOUT, when
> wi_alloc_nicmem( ) calls to alloc the tx buffer, when wi_init ( ) tries to
> initialize the card. The allocation of the management buffer suceeeds, and
> that sounds strange. The wi driver talks straight to the Hermes Controller,
> not using the card's firmware. I wonder if in this new product, the hardware
> has changed. In the wi manpage it's written about supporting 6Mbps cards,
> but never mentions 11Mbps cards. In the PAO FAQ found something about
> configuring the card with the MSDOS utility, but I just can't find it,
> neither CDROM/Website. Folks, you're my only hope, otherwise I'll have to
> install Linux. Any hint or bad news (the 11mbps card is supported?) will be
> welcome. Please help.

as per the many discussions, as are available in the archives, the pci
based bridge from lucent does not currently work.
 
> I'm not subscribed to this lists, only to questions@freebsd.org. Please
> respond to my email too.

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