From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 19 0:46: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spooky.eis.net.au (spooky.eis.net.au [203.12.171.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D301501A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:45:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie@spooky.eis.net.au) Received: (from ernie@localhost) by spooky.eis.net.au (8.9.3/8.8.3) id RAA41262; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:42:24 +1000 (EST) From: Ernie Elu Message-Id: <199907190742.RAA41262@spooky.eis.net.au> Subject: Re: wi0 almost works with Wavelan Turbo card In-Reply-To: <199907190703.DAA26187@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Jul 19, 99 03:03:50 am" To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:42:24 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Ernie Elu had > to walk into mine and say: > > > I am looking for help with getting a Lucent Wavelan Turbo ISA (Bronze) > > card running. > > What speed is the card, exactly. It runs in 3 modes, I have been testing in high speed mode which is supposed to be 10Mbps also the default mode. It can fall back to 2Mbps when talking to older cards or other 802.11 compatible cards. > > > Having read a few posts about the Wavelan IEEE 802.11 card not working with > > the wi driver I thought I would give it a go anyway with the turbo card. > > "Not working with the wi driver?" I hope you meant "now working." Good point:) > > > I installed a Wavelan Turbo PCMCIA card in my Toshiba 2520CDT notebook, and > > an idetical card with the Wavelan ISA adapter board into an Advantech 6154 > > Slot PC. > > I am not familiar with an "Advantech 6154 Slot PC." Please don't assume that > everyone automatically knows your hardware by name. Describe it. In detail. > It's a slot PC that plugs into an ISA passive backplane, popular with the picobsd crowd. It has the following probed hardware: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #3: Mon Jul 19 15:35:49 EST 1999 root@advantech.eis.net.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/ADVANTECH Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (299.52-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x80000800 real memory = 15728640 (15360K bytes) avail memory = 12660736 (12364K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02bf000. K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) Probing for PnP devices: npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 1.0 on pci0 ide_pci0: irq 14 at device 1.1 on pci0 rl0: irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:6c:74:55:92 rl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) vga-pci0: irq 15 at device 20.0 on pci0 isa0: on motherboard fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> at fdc0 drive 0 wdc0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa0 wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 2446MB (5009760 sectors), 4970 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, accel, ovlap, dma, iordis wcd0: drive speed 5512KB/sec, 128KB cache wcd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track wcd0: Audio: play, 256 volume levels wcd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray wcd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked atkbdc0: at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: at port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A PC-Card Vadem 469 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows) pcic: controller irq 5 Initializing PC-card drivers: wi changing root device to wd0s1a Card inserted, slot 0 wi0: at 0x240-0x27f irq 10 on isa wi0: Ethernet address: 00:60:1d:04:72:6a > > Both computers are running FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT with their IRQ set > > to 10 in pccard.conf, all other settings are default. > > > > It sort of works, the notebook end seems fine, but the Advantech end keeps > > coming up with the same error on the console every few seconds when there is > > traffic between them: > > > > wi0: oversized packet received (wi_dat_len=24576, wi_status=0x2000) > > > > No such error on the laptop. > > > > When the error occurs ftp or whatever you were doing stalls for a bit then > > continues. > > > > Any suggestions? > > No. I never obtained any real documentation from Lucent (they won't release > the Hermes programming manual without NDA) and I don't have a turbo WaveLAN > card so I'm unable to duplicate your problem on my own equipment. If I can't > duplicate the problem and analyze it, I can't even begin to fix it. > > -Bill I think the source to their Linux driver for the 802.11 card is at: FTP://FTP.WAVELAN.COM/PUB/SOFTWARE/IEEE/PC_CARD/LINUX/wavelan2_cs-3.10.tar.gz It's supposed to work with the turbo card, according to the one line comment at: http://www.wavelan.com/support/software/index.html There is also a version 4 linux driver for the silver card, thats the one with the WEV encryption. - Ernie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message