Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:24:31 +0100 From: Lukas Razik <lukas@razik.de> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with NDIS - FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <454358944@web.de>
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Hello! I wrote this issue some days ago to "freebsd-stable at freebsd.org" but nobody answered. Maybe I'll have more luck here... To the original message I want to add that it doesn't matter if I build a SMP kernel or not. Thanks for any answer! -----Original Message----- From: "Lukas Razik" Date: 13.03.06 17:00:30 To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org Subject: Problem with NDIS - FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE Hello! I've a problem with NDIS and a 'PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter (3890)' because if I do an 'ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168...' I must wait about !!!5 MINUTES!!! for the finish of ifconfig... -------------------------------- My System: Medion MD41300 Notebook with P4 3.06GHz HT Windows driver for the WLAN chip which I use with NDIS: http://www1.medion.de/downloads/download.pl?id=1870&type=treiber&filename=wlanwid2010win2kxp.exe〈=de pciconf -lv ndis0@pci3:6:0: class=0x028000 card=0x001417cf chip=0x38901260 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor)' device = 'ISL3890 PRISM GT 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Controller' class = network FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Mar 12 23:36:01 CET 2006 -------------------------------- That's what I've done: - I've built a kernel with SMP support, NDISAPI etc. (for details see the following config): http://net.razik.de/temp/RAZIK2006-03-12-6 - I've built a kernel module with 'ndisgen PRISMA00.inf PRISMA00.sys' - its name is: 'PRISMA00_sys.ko' - In my rc.conf I have the following line: ifconfig_ndis0="inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid razik.de wepmode mixed wepkey 1:0xABCDEF... deftxkey 1" (It doesn't matter if I use WEP or not...) It's not possible to load the PRISMA00_sys.ko module at startup (because of an error), so my current loader.conf is: kernel="kernel.6.0-STABLE" snd_ich_load="YES" linux_load="YES" nvidia_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" -------------------------------- After system startup I load the module manually by typing 'kldload PRISMA00_sys' and I get: ndis0: <PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter (3890)> mem 0xd2004000-0xd2005fff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci3 can't re-use a leaf (BusType)! ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 And about 40 seconds later i get ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b3:9d:46:dc After loading the module I can see (by typing 'ps ax') that ifconfig is automatically started (? by /etc/pccard_ether ?) and tries to configure the ndis0 device like it is written in the rc.conf. That takes about 5 minutes!!! -------------------------------- If I delete the config line for the ndis0 device in my rc.conf and kldload the PRISMA00_sys module and ifconfig ndis0 manually it also takes about 5 minutes... -------------------------------- And it doesn't matter if I set 'machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1' or not. After the 5 minutes (if the system doesn't crash) I get this from 'ifconfig ndis0': ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::260:b3ff:fe9d:46dc%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:60:b3:9d:46:dc media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: associated ssid razik.de channel 9 bssid 00:13:10:27:e4:c8 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 protmode CTS And normally I can use the WLAN chip without problems then... Does anyone have an idea why ifconfig needs so long to setup the device? Regards, Lukas Hello! I've a problem with NDIS and a 'PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter (3890)' because if I do an 'ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168...' I must wait about !!!5 MINUTES!!! for the finish of ifconfig... -------------------------------- My System: Medion MD41300 Notebook with P4 3.06GHz HT CPU Windows driver for the WLAN chip: http://www1.medion.de/downloads/download.pl?id=1870&type=treiber&filename=wlanwid2010win2kxp.exe〈=de pciconf -lv ndis0@pci3:6:0: class=0x028000 card=0x001417cf chip=0x38901260 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor)' device = 'ISL3890 PRISM GT 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Controller' class = network FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Mar 12 23:36:01 CET 2006 -------------------------------- That's what I've done: - I've built a kernel with SMP support, NDISAPI etc. (for details see the following config): http://net.razik.de/temp/RAZIK2006-03-12-6 - I've built a kernel module with 'ndisgen PRISMA00.inf PRISMA00.sys' - its name is: 'PRISMA00_sys.ko' - In my rc.conf I have the following line: ifconfig_ndis0="inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid razik.de wepmode mixed wepkey 1:0xABCDEF... deftxkey 1" (It doesn't matter if I use WEP or not...) It's not possible to load the PRISMA00_sys.ko module at startup (because of an error), so my current loader.conf is: kernel="kernel.6.0-STABLE" snd_ich_load="YES" linux_load="YES" nvidia_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" -------------------------------- After system startup I load the module manually by typing 'kldload PRISMA00_sys' and I get: ndis0: <PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter (3890)> mem 0xd2004000-0xd2005fff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci3 can't re-use a leaf (BusType)! ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 And about 40 seconds later i get ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b3:9d:46:dc After loading the module I can see (by typing 'ps ax') that ifconfig is automatically started (? by /etc/pccard_ether ?) and tries to configure the ndis0 device like it is written in the rc.conf. That takes about 5 minutes!!! -------------------------------- If I delete the config line for the ndis0 device in my rc.conf and kldload the PRISMA00_sys module and ifconfig ndis0 manually it also takes about 5 minutes... -------------------------------- And it doesn't matter if I set 'machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1' or not. After the 5 minutes (if the system doesn't crash) I get this from 'ifconfig ndis0': ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::260:b3ff:fe9d:46dc%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:60:b3:9d:46:dc media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: associated ssid razik.de channel 9 bssid 00:13:10:27:e4:c8 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 protmode CTS And normally I can use the WLAN chip without problems then... Does anyone have an idea why ifconfig needs so long to setup the device? Regards, Lukas
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