From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 23:57:34 2005 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 0751216A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:57:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lilly.hosthenge.com (lilly.hosthenge.com [66.201.42.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE29343D41 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:57:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@flyingwalrus.net) Received: from localhost (lilly [66.201.42.200]) by lilly.hosthenge.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920688A155 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilly.hosthenge.com ([66.201.42.200]) by localhost (lilly.hosthenge.com [66.201.42.200]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01212-03 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (dsl092-013-171.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.13.171]) by lilly.hosthenge.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696B28A154 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:57:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Calvert Organization: Flying Walrus Communications To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:57:22 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504091657.22330.ben@flyingwalrus.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mailhenge.com Subject: help with ndis and ipw2100 under 5-STAB LE X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:57:34 -0000 sorry if this has been covered, i haven't found any definiitive answers in any of the archives or on google: am trying to get my ipw2100 card working under ndis with 5-STABLE*. have successfully set up the ndis and if_ndis module with the inf and sys file from dell, but i consistantly get the following output from ifconfig : ndis0: flags=8802 mtu 1500 ether 00:04:23:53:53:5e media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid "" channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 I suspect that i'm somehow not getting the firmware to load. strangely, i don't see any messages about trying to load the firmware, whether i do manually from the console or from loader.conf... so i don't really know which file is the firmware file. can someone who's done this successfully help me out ? thanks. Potentially usefull info: $ uname -a FreeBSD lorax.stonehenge-net.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE \ #2: Sat Apr 9 12:45:11 PDT 2005 \ root@lorax.stonehenge-net.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOTSUCK i386 I built the if_ndis module with w70n501.inf and w70n51.sys from the R86279.EXE download supplied by dell thanks, Ben -- Ben Calvert Flying Walrus Communications www.flyingwalrus.net 650 346 6848