From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 09:31:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3342F16A4A7 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:31:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ran@styx.aic.net) Received: from darkside.aic.net (darkside.aic.net [69.31.42.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD5D13C44E for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:31:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ran@styx.aic.net) Received: from styx.aic.net ([195.250.64.68]) by darkside.aic.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gy2gI-0008un-Gh for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:56:39 +0400 Received: from ran by styx.aic.net with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gy2g3-000Q00-B2; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:56:23 +0400 In-Reply-To: <200612220244.kBM2iMux012053@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: Scott Bennett Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:56:23 +0400 (AMT) X-PGP: http://styx.aic.net/pgpkeys/ran.asc X-NCC-RegID: am.nic X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: From: Hrant Dadivanyan X-AIC-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-AIC-Scan-Signature: 19fc0b316f3139f6ef079f82fa46fc25 X-AIC-Scan-Server: darkside.aic.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another step toward a working driver for Dell 1450 wireless card 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: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:31:52 -0000 > SUCCESS AT LAST!!! Read on... > Glad to hear, congratulations ! [deleted] > >Please note, you need to feed bcm43xx.cat to ndisgen as well. > This is wrong, because driver works without. That was my mistake, ndis wasn't load by some other cause. > I hadn't been aware of the bcm43xx.cat firmware file, so I checked the > modern driver files for it, found it, and tried again. It still caused the > same error messages and kernel panic. > So then I tried the "old" driver you directed me toward. When I then > did a kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko , lo and behold, no errors, the card was correctly > identified as a Dell 1450, and the kernel kept running as though nothing > important had happened. > As I write this update, I am logged in remotely to the system I handle > email on from a Starbuck's via a free-access wireless router at a Panera > restaurant across the highway. I've done a fresh cvsup on everything except > the ports tree and have run a "portsnap fetch update" as well. The connection > seems to work just great! > > > >Yesterday I found the following - > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106131 > >with patch to ndis. It may work for you, sorry I don't have time now to > >try it for myself, on holidays maybe. > > I'll check that out when I find a bit more spare time. I confirm that patch works. Apply it and you can load "fresh" drivers from Dell. Thanks to Scot W. Hetzel for excellent work ! > Thank you ever so wonderfully much for your help! This is great! Now > I won't have to go bother my friends to let me hang out for hours at a time > in their basement with my computer hooked to their router by wire. :-) :-) > ;-) hrant > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > ********************************************************************** > * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * > * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * > * -- a standing army." * > * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * > ********************************************************************** > -- Hrant Dadivanyan (aka Ran d'Adi) ran(at)psg.com /* "Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes." */ ran(at)styx.aic.net