From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 16:54:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA1637B404 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366E743F3F for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (12-234-159-107.client.attbi.com[12.234.159.107](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003081423545401500b1uvhe>; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:54:54 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7ENsXJp085600 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h7ENsXFY085599 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:54:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to cristjc@comcast.net using -f Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:54:33 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030814235432.GA85523@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Subject: Linksys WPC11 v4 and Netgear MA401RA Troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:54:58 -0000 I've sold out and gone wireless. Well, I'm trying to go wireless. I have a Thinkpad 600E running 5.1-RELEASE. I went over to Fry's and picked up some cards. I got two listed in the Release Notes as supported, the Linksys WPC11 and Netgear MA401. But I'm having problems. At first, nothing was working at all until I learned the magical, hw.cbb.start_memory="0x2000000", incantation. Now NEWCARD actually works. I found my MA401 seems to work fine with OLDCARD on both 5.1 and 4.8. At least, it gets loaded up and ifconfig(8) sees it fine. Since I've only ever had one card working, I don't have much of a network to test on yet. However, the MA401 is making trouble in NEWCARD, as in the system locks up. Locks up hard. The only way out is to power cycle. Before I found the miracle of hw.cbb.start_memory, the card didn't work, but it didn't lock up the system either. The debug output looked like, pccard0: check_cis_quirks pccard0: CIS version PC Card Standard 5.0 pccard0: CIS info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P, Eval-RevA pccard0: Manufacturer code 0xb, product 0x7300 pccard0: function 0: network adapter, ccr addr 3e0 mask 1 pccard0: function 0, config table entry 1: I/O card; irq mask ffff; iomask 6, iospace 0-3f; io16 irqpulse irq level pccard0: functions scanning pccard0: Card has 1 functions. pccard_mfc is 0 pccard0: I/O rid 0 start 0 end ffffffff cbb_pcic_socket_enable: cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44] cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_5V and CARD_VPP_VCC [15] pccard0: ccr_res == 20000000-200003ff, base=3e0 pccard0: function 0 CCR at 0 offset 3e0: 41 80 22 ff, ff ff ff ff, ff pccard0: (manufacturer=0x000b, product=0x7300) at function 0 pccard0: CIS info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P I can get the debug info with the hw.cbb.start_memory fixed over a serial console if it would help. Any advice on that one? If I limit it to OLDCARD, I think it would work, but if it works there, it should work on NEWCARD too, shouldn't it? My other card, the WPC11 turned out to be a WPC11 version 4. Unlike the Release Notes, the wi(4) manpage only mentions support for some earlier versions. I found some old messages in the archives that this card actually uses a completely different, and as yet, unsupported chipset than the earlier versions, which were wi(4). Is there any progress on that one or should I be taking it back and getting myself something else? Here's some debug on it, cbb0: card inserted: event=0x00000000, state=30000920 cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44] cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_3V and CARD_VPP_VCC [11] TUPLE: LINKTARGET [3]: 43 49 53 Manufacturer ID: 00004c02 Functions: Network Adaptor, Multi-Functioned Function Extension: 0102 Function Extension: 0280969800 Function Extension: 0200e1f505 Function Extension: 040600e04c390010 TUPLE: DEVICE_OC [2]: 02 ff cardbus0: Opening BAR: type=IO, bar=10, len=0100 cardbus0: Opening BAR: type=MEM, bar=14, len=0200 CIS reading done cardbus0: Non-prefetchable memory at 20000000-200001ff cardbus0: IO port at 1000-10ff cardbus0: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44] cbb0: CardBus card activation failed Finally, a bit off-topic for mobile, but can anyone recommend a relatively easy to find wireless PCI or ISA card for a 4_RELENG system? I'd like to stick one in my firewall and use it as the access point. -- Crist J. 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