Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:15:07 HST From: knowtree@aloha.com To: Johan Johansen <Johan.Johansen@cc.uit.no>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_wpi will not work for me Message-ID: <200803200815.m2K8F67R030345@yoda.pixi.com>
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> My notebook is HP Compaq nc2400 running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE > > kldload if_wpi give me > Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem > 0xf0000000-0xf0000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8 > Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory resource > Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6 > > and ifconfig show no wpi0 > > I have not seen this behaviour mentioned before, so could anyone > give me some hints, please? > > mvh > > johan I have been describing related problems in a different thread, but it might help others if I join this one. Before I go on, a big mahalo (thanks) to everyone with advice on how to get my Lucent Gold wifi card working better. Much better now. My Dell Latitude D830 has a built-in wifi interface which Dennis Melentyev said might work with the wpi driver. I followed his advice and the instructions on the wpi man page, but no luck yet. Here is my entire /boot/loader.conf file, which includes stuff for the sound card (which does not send output through the built-in speakers, which is not much of a loss). sound_load="YES" snd_hda_load="YES" # enable ATAPI/CAM driver for CD-ROM atapicam_load="YES" # enable wpi wireless driver for Dell internal legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 if_wpi_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" wlan_amrr_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" wpifw_load="YES" Does it matter what sequence these come in? Here the output of kldstat: Id Refs Address Size Name 1 19 0xc0400000 926ed4 kernel 2 2 0xc0d27000 4a5ac sound.ko 3 1 0xc0d72000 14324 snd_hda.ko 4 1 0xc0d87000 4d20 atapicam.ko 5 1 0xc0d8c000 f140 if_wpi.ko 6 1 0xc0d9c000 25f60 wpifw.ko 7 1 0xc0dc2000 6a1c4 acpi.ko 8 1 0xc5987000 22000 linux.ko I noticed some things not listed, wlan, wlan_amrr, and firmware. Just for fun I tried loading them manually, and got this: # kldload wlan.ko kldload: can't load wlan.ko: File exists The other two, wlan_amrr, and firmware, do the same. I suspect that means those modules are configured into the kernel. ??? When the system boots I see no sign of activity from wpi0. It does not appear in /var/run/dmesg.boot or /var/log/messages. Is there a log file for loader.conf? The computer has an LED that is on in Windows (it comes on about half way through the boot sequence), but remains off when I boot into FreeBSD from power-on. The slider switch on the side of the computer does not switch on the radio. If I go into Windows, then restart and select FreeBSD, the LED remains on but with no change, still nothing in the logs or in the output of ifconfig. I can load and unload if_wpi without error. I added this to /etc/rc.conf: network_interfaces=bge0 wi0 wpi0 to try to force recognition of wpi0 but no change. (bge0 is the built-in wired Ethernet NIC.) Any suggestions? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project
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