From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 11:43:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 897DD16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:43:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E4D43D48 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:43:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 13866 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2006 11:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.187.173.29]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Feb 2006 11:43:39 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:43:40 +0100 From: Fabian Keil To: "Dan Langille" Message-ID: <20060207124340.56f62d38@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_9KCsESLEOUZCYznmefV8FpR; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis on 6.1-PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:43:42 -0000 --Sig_9KCsESLEOUZCYznmefV8FpR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Dan Langille" wrote: > I'm trying, and failing so far, to get ndis running on 6.1-PRERELEASE=20 > (Sat Feb 4). I was using ipw but it frooze the system. ? =20 > I have an IBM ThinkPad T41. I grabbed the drivers from http://www- > 307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=3DMIGR-59438 >=20 > After downloading and extracting the files from 1rwc88ww.exe,=20 > I used w70n501.inf and w70n51.sys as inputs to ndisgen. >=20 > 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. =20 > The result was w70n51_sys.ko and w70n51.sys.ko >=20 > I loaded ndis.ko, if_ndis.ko, w70n51.sys.ko, and w70n51_sys.ko (in=20 > that order). dmesg showed: >=20 > ndis0: mem=20 > 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,=20 > 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 --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_9KCsESLEOUZCYznmefV8FpR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6IfzjV8GA4rMKUQRApu8AJ4y3y9a8OWCzMz3JJwcmDJ3MbCKaQCggUf+ CZq42kezvVHOplcHH0S7cIc= =oYQs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_9KCsESLEOUZCYznmefV8FpR--