From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Sep 25 11:16:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.svjava.com (schooner.svjava.com [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D823237B424; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.svjava.com (8.9.1a/svjava.com) id LAA12513; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:16:07 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski To: Antonio Varela Lizardi Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with WaveLAN Card Message-ID: <20000925111607.Q10523@schooner.svjava.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: ; from antonio@icon.net.mx on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:11:51AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. if you're going to ask the question on a list, you should be subscribed to that list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message