Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:18:47 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Matthew David Parker <matparke@cs.indiana.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 1450 usb wireless card w/ FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <43A1CFA7.1090201@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512151501140.8903@whale.cs.indiana.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512151501140.8903@whale.cs.indiana.edu>
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Matthew David Parker wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to get a 1450 Dell wireless usb card working here in FreeBSD >6.0. I opened up the card casing and the chips inside say "conexant", and >it's some sort of prism2. > >I couldn't find any drivers to use that were native to freeBSD so I tried >to do the NDISulator. I did ndisgen on my inf and sys files and it seemed >to work perfectly, generating a file named PRISMA02_sys.ko, which I put >into /boot/kernel. > >So I plugged the card into the USB slot and here is the dmesg: > >ugen0: DELL Dell Wireless 1450 Dual-band (802.11a/b/g) USB 2.0 Adapter, >rev 2.00/10.50, addr 2 > >Then I did: >kldload ndis > >which loaded if_ndis as well: >kldstat: > 4 2 0xc0e0b000 c960 if_ndis.ko > 5 3 0xc0e18000 173c4 ndis.ko > >Then I did: >kldload PRISMA02_sys.ko > >It loads the module but doesn't say anything, no errors, nothing. > >kldstat has this new line: > 7 1 0xc243f000 59000 PRISMA02_sys.ko > >The little lights on my wireless card don't turn on, and there is >absoletely nothing new added to dmesg, nor is there any new device added >when I do "ifconfig". > >Am I missing something here? Do I have to compile the module specifically >for USB? Do I have to manually create a device in /dev ? > > You may try unplugging it, kldunloading ugen, then plugging it back in. If you have ugen compiled into your kernel, I suppose you could edit devd.conf to not act on the adapter. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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