From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 11 23:08:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 8ACD316A400 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A46B43D45 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:08:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A6653.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.102.83]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3BN8PP1031304; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:08:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3BN8N5W024027; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:08:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3BN9UY3072200; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:09:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k3BN9UM3072199; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:09:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:09:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200604112309.k3BN9UM3072199@fire.jhs.private> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com Munich Unix, BSD, Internet Consultancy Fcc: sent-mail User-agent: EXMH http://beedub.com/exmh/ on FreeBSD http://freebsd.org X-URL: http://berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ Cc: darron@kewl.org, jhs@berklix.com, garyj@jennejohn.org Subject: Support for W_LAN chip set TI TNETW1130GVF ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:08:29 -0000 Hi all on mobile@freebsd.org + 2 CC I bought a SAFECOM SWLCT-54125 802.11g+ Wireless LAN CardBus PC Card & am stuck, looking for ideas (Yes, stupid me, bought without checking compatability, tempted by price (17 GBP), must have been mad, Mea Culpa!): According to http://safecom.cn (Then type SAFECOM SWLCT-54125 into query box) It uses Chipset TI TNETW1130GVF http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tnetw1130.html#technicaldocuments Medium-Access Controller (MAC) and Baseband Processor For Spread-Spectrum WLAN http://focus-webapps.ti.com/general/docs/sitesearch/searchsite.tsp?selectedTopic=1653260327&numRecords=25&searchTerm=tnetw1130&statusCode=null I hope there's some chance, as the box features the Linux penguin, & quoting: http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/bcg/bcgprodcontent.tsp?templateId=6116&navigationId=12244&path=templatedata/cm/product/data/tnetw1130_main "All products submitted for 802.11g Wi-Fi certification will be tested against TNETW1130-based reference designs." TI Product announcement also mentions: Like TI's ACX100 and ETW1100B, the TNETW1130 .... package, which is pin-for-pin compatible with TI's previous generation WLAN MAC/baseband processor device. A diff -c of 2 x dmesg after boot -v , (with first a working USB2 card, & then reboot with WLAN card istead) shows: pcib2: cardbus0 requested memory range 0xfce00000-0xfcefffff: good ! cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x2c ! cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000 ! cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=20000 ! pcib2: cardbus0 requested memory range 0xfce00000-0xfcefffff: good ! found-> vendor=0x104c, dev=0x9066, revid=0x00 bus=4, slot=0, func=0 ! class=02-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0000, statreg=0x0210, cachelnsz=8 (dwords) ! lattimer=0xa8 (5040 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns) intpin=a, irq=11 powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0 ! cardbus0: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) I have 2 partitions on the laptop: 6.0 & 6.1-pre. I could change 6.1-pre to current if there's any code to try ? I'm more used to dealing with 16 bit cards with pccardd -d -v on FreeBSD 4 & 5, & at a loss what to do. Might Project Evil be a last way out ? (MS emul. of drivers far as I recall) No way will I run Linux permanently on the laptop just to get the WLAN working (though I suppose I might do a temporary install to learn which driver & maybe find src/ to port, but I bet it wouldnt be that easy ? Progress Googling: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ http://dev.kewl.org/acx100/ http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/07/21/1057231.shtml http://dev.kewl.org/acx100/acx100-6.0-REL-soyer.tgz http://dev.kewl.org/acx100/TEST/acx100-6.1.tgz OK, that lot seems (superficially at least) for the previous generation chip, but perhaps a good launch point ? Per their web I did: cd firmware && make && cd .. make make install echo 'if_acx_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf gzip -c if_acx.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/acx.4.gz & saw: install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_acx.ko /boot/modules kldxref /boot/modules reboot Still no extra interface, though Ive got pccard_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf Any Suggestions & comments very welcome ! Thanks. Julian -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com