Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:14:22 -0500 From: "Peter D. Quilty" <pdquilty@adelphia.net> To: "Philip M. Golllucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 5160 / Wireless Message-ID: <1109851966.76608.16.camel@pdq-9100> Resent-Message-ID: <20050303121424.48B3B43D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200503030555.j235tDc7060619@realtime.exit.com> References: <200503030555.j235tDc7060619@realtime.exit.com>
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I have an Inspiron 9100 with a Dell 1350 card running 5.3-RELEASE-p5.
I've been using the ndis driver for about a month now with only the
occasional minor problem.
ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem
0xfaff6000-0xfaff7fff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci2
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:96:a3:80:81
ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.57 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:90:96:a3:80:81
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid MY_SSID_HERE 1:MY_SSID_HERE
channel 1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
rtsthreshold 2312 protmode OFF
wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
wepkey 1:104-bit
It works great 99% of the time, but occasionally under certain heavy
load conditions I get the following:
kernel: ndis0: watchdog timeout
kernel: ndis0: link down
When I do "ifconfig ndis0 up", I then get:
kernel: NDIS: buggy driver deleting active packet pool!
kernel: NDIS: buggy driver deleting active buffer pool!
kernel: ndis0: link up
And it starts working again. I haven't been able to figure out why, but
it hardly happens, so I haven't spent any time on it.
PDQ
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:55 -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> Philip M. Golllucci wrote:
> > I've got a dell 5160 notebook with builtin wireless ethernet.
> > The ethernet is none existant.
>
> Inspiron 5160? It has an RJ45 for wired ethernet based on a Broadcom
> chip, use the bfe(4) driver. As for the wireless, you have two options.
> You can use the ndis(4) driver to run the Dell 1350 (really another Broadcom
> chipset), or you can replace that with an Atheros-based minipci card and
> use the ath(4) driver.
>
> I chose the latter course and am using it right now. I am running -current,
> however, since the wireless support there is _much_ better than that in
> 5.x. Running -current is not for the faint of heart.
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