Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:46:56 -0700 From: James Earl <jamesearl@shaw.ca> To: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDISulator results with MPI350 Message-ID: <b7c64b906d.b906db7c64@shaw.ca>
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----- Original Message ----- From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:20 pm Subject: Re: NDISulator results with MPI350 > > The following are some results from trying out the NDISulator > with an MPI350 MiniPCI card under 5.2.1-RELEASE and NDIS sources as > of 2004/03/09. I updated to the latest firmware and downloaded the > latest Windows drivers. > > > > Ok, people: do you have any idea how _unhelpful_ it is when all > you say is you have "the latest drivers?" You have, right in front > of you, the names of the files you downloaded, and even the version > numbers. Couldn't you just say what they are instead of forcing me > to play detective? Please don't assume that I'll be able to find > same "latest" files that you have. v1.2 (17 Nov 2003) Filename: Win-Client-802.11a-b-Ins-Wizard-v12.exe > > # sysctl debug.bootverbose=1 > > debug.bootverbose: 0 -> 1 > > # kldload if_ndis > > ndis0: <Cisco Systems PCI Wireless LAN Adapter> port 0x8000- > 0x80ff mem 0xc040000 > > 0-0xc07fffff,0xc0200000-0xc0203fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 > > pcib2: device ndis0 requested decoded memory range 0xc0400000- > 0xc07fffff> pcib2: device ndis0 requested decoded memory range > 0xc0200000-0xc0203fff > > pcib2: device ndis0 requested decoded I/O range 0x8000-0x80ff > > can't re-use a leaf (NodeName)! > > can't re-use a leaf (InfrastructureMode)! > > can't re-use a leaf (PowerSaveMode)! > > can't re-use a leaf (SupportedRates)! > > can't re-use a leaf (SSID1)! > > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 > > ndis0: 802.11 address: ac:e9:03:00:00:00 > > ndis0: couldn't retrieve channel info: 19 > > ndis0: bpf attached > > ndis0: bpf attached > > ndis0: 11b rates: > > Something is very wrong here. I really don't think ac:e9:03:00:00:00 > is a proper MAC address. Please take a step back and tell me just > which driver files you're trying to use. (Also, note that the surest > way to get a card working is for me to get my hands on one so that > I can debug the problems myself. It's almost impossible for anyone > to "help" me by offering to test patches since I have no idea what > to patch unless I have the thing in front of me.) > The MAC address was changing each time I loaded the if_ndis module. James
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