From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 09:46:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786FA16A51C for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6EE43FE9 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:46:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h81GkoTX026860; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:46:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:45:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030901.104556.107856806.imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcel@xcllnt.net From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030901164525.GB562@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <002d01c3709d$3bac7480$093d1581@rehash> <20030901.103852.122081183.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030901164525.GB562@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: neo@csh.rit.edu cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lucent Technologies Orinoco Gold X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:46:53 -0000 In message: <20030901164525.GB562@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:38:52AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <002d01c3709d$3bac7480$093d1581@rehash> : > "Michael Goffin" writes: : > : I posted a week or two ago about having issues with my Orinoco Gold wireless : > : card not working in 5.1-current. It was suggested that I update the : > : firmware. The firmware upgrade did not work. Has anyone had issues with this : > : card in 5.1-current that they were able to resolve? : > : > You might also want to try the owi driver. It isn't supported, and : > may disappear soon, but it was created to try to fix the lucent : > support in the wi driver. You can't have both the owi and wi drivers : > in the kernel at the same time. owi is supported only as a module. : > If it doesn't work, then oh well. : : What are the problems? I'm happily using my Lucent card without : problems. That is, I have less problems with it than I had with : an embedded PRISM3. You are lucky,. Some people have huge issues with lucent cards, others don't for reasons that are poorly understood. : wi0: at port 0x100-0x13f irq 9 function 0 config 1 on pccard0 : wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:2d:09:71:2b : wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE : wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (6.6.1) : wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps : wi0: bad alloc 3d2 != ff, cur 0 nxt 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this is a problem. Warner