From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 15:19:11 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A9F16A417 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben.gould@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2288E13C49D for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:19:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben.gould@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so899937rvb for ; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.204.16 with SMTP id g16mr70597rvq.1194093579040; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.188.15 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 05:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:39:39 +0000 From: "Ben Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: wireless network using ndisgen X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:19:11 -0000 Trying to set-up wireless internet access through a Belkin FSD6020 ver.2 wireless card has proved less than useful. Seeing that this isn't on the supported hardware list I had some fun unpacking .cab files from their distribution cdroms to attempt to wrap this using ndisgen. All seemed to go well as far as the utility itself is concerned, but I didn't get any messages (success or error) after running kldload ... I followed the instructions from the current FreeBSD handbook. >From looking at the dmesg maybe there's a problem with cbb2 that's blocking ndis? Can a guru help me? I really don't want to have to use Win98 on this machine any longer... what's left of my sanity is at stake. My conclusions: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1.5 installs from CDROM, not much else to say. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE didn't so that's at least something to be proud of. Hardware: Compaq Presario 1920 "Internet Zone" with no built-in ethernet. output from kldstat: Id Refs Address Size Name 1 9 0xc0400000 8ca35c kernel 2 2 0xc0ccb000 e730 if_ndis.ko 3 3 0xc0cda000 1aa10 ndis.ko 4 1 0xc0cf5000 14ac4 bkpcmxp_sys.ko (I also tried similar with the win98 ndis driver; similar results) Nothing printed to console. output from ifconfig: plip0: flags=108810 metric 0 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 No ndis0 as I hoped. output from dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1.5 #0: Thu Oct 25 01:19:36 UTC 2007 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (298.65-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x66a Stepping = 10 Features=0x183f9ff real memory = 201326592 (192 MB) avail memory = 182984704 (174 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: on hostb0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 vgapci0: mem 0xf5000000-0xf5ffffff,0xf4400000-0xf47fffff,0xf4100000-0xf41fffff irq 9 at device 0.0 on pci1 pci1: at device 0.1 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] uhci0: port 0x1060-0x107f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered piix0: port 0x1040-0x104f at device 7.3 on pci0 Timecounter "PIIX" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 0 cbb0: irq 9 at device 8.0 on pci0 cbb0: chip is in D3 power mode -- setting to D0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb0: [ITHREAD] cbb1: irq 9 at device 8.1 on pci0 cbb1: chip is in D3 power mode -- setting to D0 cardbus1: on cbb1 pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1 cbb1: [ITHREAD] pci0: at device 9.0 (no driver attached) pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FILTER] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ppc0: [ITHREAD] sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: can't assign resources (memory) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (memory) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (irq) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) cbb2: Cannot allocate I/O Timecounter "TSC" frequency 298649932 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 3909MB at ata0-master UDMA33 pccard0: (manufacturer=0x01bf, product=0x3302, function_type=6) at function 0 pccard0: CIS info: Belkin, 11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master PIO4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Kind regards -- ben