From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 12:30:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5161065674 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 12:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@lavabit.com) Received: from karen.lavabit.com (karen.lavabit.com [72.249.41.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 790388FC1F for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 12:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from e.earth.lavabit.com (e.earth.lavabit.com [192.168.111.14]) by karen.lavabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB3811B8F2; Tue, 25 May 2010 06:57:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 10.0.10.3 (54.81.54.77.rev.vodafone.pt [77.54.81.54]) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id NFCY2LTT3GHW; Tue, 25 May 2010 06:57:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=hPnx6B4FB3xO8OkeUlvg8IKAYa+3vztxJEcTKE4O4ZsGy5hMGBEJHOw9+qfGkZoJ0zdssedS7kVRJWcufAH3czUr7TLyUYHlz1FaV/NBZ5wyutOxJD7H9/xh/xxxYrvMX82AxBdwDd8LzXaCQYZ4T/yFIC0NSlt8c6GkPxTJdqE=; h=Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:References:To:X-Mailer; Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Rui Paulo In-Reply-To: <4BF7CDC3.8050908@bsdforen.de> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:57:07 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <95EA8683-E0AD-48DF-9148-8DE3E368F26C@lavabit.com> References: <4BF7C455.6040806@bsdforen.de> <4BF7CDC3.8050908@bsdforen.de> To: Dominic Fandrey X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:03:10 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:30:04 -0000 On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b): >> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >> System halted. Remove device and restart. >>=20 >> The system boots if I turn off the wireless device in BIOS, but >> this means I cannot use it. >>=20 >> Now, I could just get a BIOS image and exchange the device IDs >> there. But I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just reactivate the >> PCIe slot through the OS? >=20 > This e-mail is written through the ath wireless I got: >=20 > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=3D8843 metric 0 = mtu 2290 > ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g > status: associated > ... > wlan0: flags=3D8843 metric 0 = mtu 1500 > ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f > inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g > status: associated > ssid "Obi-Wan Kenobi" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid = 00:15:0c:d5:37:a0 > regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON > deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid = 450 > bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 > protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL >=20 > I achieved this by passing the BIOS check with the intel wireless and > hot-swapping it with the atheros card afterwards. This is impractical > and evil, so I'm still searching for a solution. >=20 > But at least I know that the device works. HP laptops really dislike the fact that your card isn't part of the = Centrino brand, so they halt if they find an Atheros. Your best option = is to change the Atheros card EEPROM to match the device and vendor id = of your wpi card. Then you also need to change the ath driver to attach = to that device id. It's evil, but it's better than hot-swapping. The other option is to buy a iwn card which works better in FreeBSD than = wpi. Regards, -- Rui Paulo