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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, LINGAM RAVI KIRAN <l_ravikiran_2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Problem in wpi firmware
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Rene Ladan wrote:
> 2007/11/19, LINGAM RAVI KIRAN <l_ravikiran_2000@yahoo.com>:
>   
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> I am trying to get wifi in hp nc6400 laptop, i have Intel 3945ABG NIC card, i installed wpi package, but there is some problem in firmware or some silly mistake i am doing, which i could not figure out. My system configuration is:
>>
>> Intel 3945ABG NIC card
>> FreeBSD 8.0 current
>>
>> Problem is :
>>
>> bad dmamem_alloc_memory
>>
>> and after that
>>
>> firmware wpifw could not load.
>>
>>     
> Since you're running CURRENT, you could try the version included in
> the cvs source (remove the manually downloaded version first).  The
> cvs version should work (my wpi card still fails with an error 17 upon
> association).  It also includes the firmware image.
>
> Expect some harmless messages about misaligned memory when loading the driver.
>
> HTH,
> Rene
>   
The misaligned memory messages should disappear with a patch I'll be 
putting in p4 tonight. As to the association issue can you please try 
the version in p4 and see if it fixes your problem?

Cheers,
    Benjamin