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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:02:33 
From:      "Thor Legvold" <tlegvold@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Problems with Orinoco WaveLan (long)
Message-ID:  <F41VTT2RPKhDCtsLGqm00014987@hotmail.com>

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As far as I'm able to see, the card is identified, configured and seems to 
exist fine (ifconfig -a shows it as up, reports the details, etc before the 
card is given any IP or netmask).

wicontrol shows the stats, the IBSS name is correct (of the local access 
point I connect to), everything seems ok.

I do the following:
# dhclient wi0

and get the following:

wi0: watchdog timeout

After several repeated messages I get my prompt back, and ifconfig -a tells 
me that wi0 is:
IP 0.0.0.0 mask 0xFF000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255.

netstat -rn gives:
dest	gw	flags	netif
0	link#5	UC	wi0
plus my other routes.

The watchdog comments continue popping up on the console, of course.

My ISP is currently running the AccessPoint as a NAT/DHCP server on a class 
A network (10.0.0.0).  Luckily I have a laptop, lucky or not it has WinXP on 
it. I've configured it to use DHCP and put the Orinoco card in it, it works 
perfectly.

I installed 4.0-RELEASE, CVSup'ed to 4.4-STABLE and have built and installed 
both world and kernel. I intend the machine to be a gateway/firewall (ipfw) 
and do NAT translation for my local home network, allowing all machines to 
access the broadband wireless connection.

The hardware is a Fujitsu Siemens ScenicPro, Pentium 200MMX, both ISA and 
PCI slots. The Orinoco is in a PC-Card carrier in PCI slot 4, a Matrox MGA 
Millenium is in PCI slot 0. A CNet Pro-200 (dc0) is in slot 3. Nothing else 
is installed in the machine. The entire disk is dedicated to FreeBSD, I boot 
from a CD-R until the spinning baton, then give a boot message for the hard 
disk and kernel image (because for some strage reason the hard disk refuses 
to boot, although every test I've run on it say's it fine and I've tried 
every jumper setting available. When it's up and running everything works 
great. This is the same for FBSD, Windows and DOS, so I think it might be a 
faulty control card on the hard disk itself.).

Checking my kernel configuration file and the dmesg, I see that there are no 
IRQ conflicts - the Orinoco is on IRQ 10, the dc0 on 11, etc. I have only a 
very few warning messages in my dmesg, relevant lines are as follows:

boot ad(0,a)/kernel

Warning: loader(8) metadata is missing! #this because I boot from the CD-R 
of 4.0-RELEASE, I expect. I wonder how I would go about making a boot floppy 
or CD-R dedicated to the machine's and kernel's  configuration that would 
pass the boot (and root dev) to the hdd...?

then I get this very shortly after the CPU type/setup is done:
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x11a, dev=0x0005) at 3.0
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x11a, dev=0x0005) at 3.1
I'm guessing it's something built onto the mainboard, like a soundchip or 
the flashcard reader or something. I got the machine for free from someone 
who didn't want it after buying a new one.

further down we have this:
pci_cfgintr: can't route an interrupt to 0:18 INTA
pcic0: <TI PCI-1410 PCI-Cardbus Bridge> at device 18.0 on pci0
pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x44000000
pci_cfgintr: can't route an interrupt to 0:18 INTA
pcic0: no PCI interrupt routed, trying ISA
pcic0: Polling mode
pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][CSC parallel isa irq]
pccard0: <PC Card bus (classic) on pcic0>
...
then this:
pccard: card inserted, slot 0
wi0: <WaveLan/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: ethernet address: 00:02:2d:0b:c2:39

I've checked sysctl, it says:
hw.pcic.ignore_function_1: 0
and won't let me change it to "YES" or "1" (variable read only - even as 
root), so I'm not sure how else I would go about trying it (from what I've 
read on Deja about similar problems).

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction (or proper mailing list, 
in case *-mobile would be more appropriate because of Warners presence...)

Regards,
Thor


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