Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:57:07 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@lavabit.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS Message-ID: <95EA8683-E0AD-48DF-9148-8DE3E368F26C@lavabit.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF7CDC3.8050908@bsdforen.de> References: <4BF7C455.6040806@bsdforen.de> <4BF7CDC3.8050908@bsdforen.de>
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On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b): >> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >> System halted. Remove device and restart. >>=20 >> The system boots if I turn off the wireless device in BIOS, but >> this means I cannot use it. >>=20 >> Now, I could just get a BIOS image and exchange the device IDs >> there. But I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just reactivate the >> PCIe slot through the OS? >=20 > This e-mail is written through the ath wireless I got: >=20 > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 = mtu 2290 > ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g > status: associated > ... > wlan0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 = mtu 1500 > ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f > inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g > status: associated > ssid "Obi-Wan Kenobi" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid = 00:15:0c:d5:37:a0 > regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON > deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid = 450 > bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 > protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL >=20 > I achieved this by passing the BIOS check with the intel wireless and > hot-swapping it with the atheros card afterwards. This is impractical > and evil, so I'm still searching for a solution. >=20 > But at least I know that the device works. HP laptops really dislike the fact that your card isn't part of the = Centrino brand, so they halt if they find an Atheros. Your best option = is to change the Atheros card EEPROM to match the device and vendor id = of your wpi card. Then you also need to change the ath driver to attach = to that device id. It's evil, but it's better than hot-swapping. The other option is to buy a iwn card which works better in FreeBSD than = wpi. Regards, -- Rui Paulo
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