Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:43:40 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis on 6.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20060207124340.56f62d38@localhost>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> wrote: > I'm trying, and failing so far, to get ndis running on 6.1-PRERELEASE > (Sat Feb 4). I was using ipw but it frooze the system. ? > I have an IBM ThinkPad T41. I grabbed the drivers from http://www- > 307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59438 > > After downloading and extracting the files from 1rwc88ww.exe, > I used w70n501.inf and w70n51.sys as inputs to ndisgen. > > When asked for firmware, I supplied w70n51.sys the input. For me this step was never needed and I just press return to skip it. I use ndis with an Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection. > The result was w70n51_sys.ko and w70n51.sys.ko > > I loaded ndis.ko, if_ndis.ko, w70n51.sys.ko, and w70n51_sys.ko (in > that order). dmesg showed: > > ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter> mem > 0xc0214000-0xc0214fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 > ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:f1:27:67:f5 Don't you get this even without loading w70n51.sys.ko? > ndis0 is unable to set/retain an SSID while it is UP. When DOWN, > yes, it takes an SSID, but moving the card to UP loses the SSID: Try setting the ssid together with the bssid, this works for me on a TP51 running 6.0-Stable. Without specifying the bssid I get results like you described, but I can't set the ssid alone, even if ndis0 is down. More information at: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg75473.html. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6IfzjV8GA4rMKUQRApu8AJ4y3y9a8OWCzMz3JJwcmDJ3MbCKaQCggUf+ CZq42kezvVHOplcHH0S7cIc= =oYQs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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