Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:15:06 -0400 From: "Yousif Hassan" <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu> To: "Armando Cambra" <acambra@gmail.com>, <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: if_wpi will not work for me Message-ID: <7BF39357DC78484DB4A69C74236B6CFA@alderaan> In-Reply-To: <e27a91b40803190429r3c244dcdg2d58dcd2f10667b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <200803181157.m2IBvBLb000594@tausa.cc.uit.no><20080318142844.f1bee977.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no><200803182041.m2IKfrHY001964@tausa.cc.uit.no><20080319002135.3d2fac7b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <e27a91b40803190429r3c244dcdg2d58dcd2f10667b3@mail.gmail.com>
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Armando Cambra wrote: > I'm returning to FreeBSD from a long odyssey od using some other OSs... > I have an Asus P1j (I think) Notebook, with a 3945 Wifi Card in it. > As I'm a roadwarrior I really need that fix of Wifi :-) but I don't > seem to get it working. I tried to follow the Mailing lists but did > not find anything related to my problem. > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 or better trying to run it. > 1. I can't start the FreeBSD without ACPI turned on, the Kernel just > panics. So no luck there :-( > > dmesg show lots of "wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory > properly", but nevertheless I get the wpi0 interface. It just does not > associate itself with the AP. I think the Network card is not running > as the status light is not light (I have some ... indeed very nice ... > leds that indicate the status). > I have some collected information on setting up wpi here: http://www.far-far-away.com/~yousif/freebsd/laptops/ (under dv9700t) Obviously this is not the same hardware as you, but if you can get a device wpi0 you've already fought most of the battle. :) btw, according to an older post, "wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly" is not really a big deal. I used to get those errors (you will see this in the configs I pointed you to above) but wpi worked anyway. The latest patches that have been floating around on freebsd-net@ solve the problem (and a host of others, too). I don't know if they've been MFCd back to 7.0 yet but they will be. http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff Good luck - Yousif
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