DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4)

[Michael Roberts]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the delay - long weekend.  If I put the 
card in before bootup, it will give the first set of errors that I listed 
during boot, then will give the "bfe0 timeout" errors after it has finished 
the boot scripts.  So, that method doesn't work either.

I haven't tried disabling my ethernet device.. though that's a good idea.  
How exactly do you do that?  I tried "kldunload bfe", where bfe is my nic 
device, however that doesn't work, since bfe is built into the kernel.  I 
tried syncing my sources and upgrading the kernel again, but something is 
broken in the sources, and the kernel doesn't compile even a GENERIC kernel. 
  So, is there a way to unload a *part* of the kernel module -- namely bfe?

Thanks for the help, it would be great if I could get this working.  And it 
should work.... since it uses the ar5211.sys driver on the windows side, 
which means Atheros....

regards,
Mike


>From: Geffy <geffy at geffychan.co.uk>
>To: Michael Roberts <tpen0010 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4)
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:25:04 +0100
>
>Michael Roberts wrote:
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I got DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4) pc-card recently, which is supposed to 
>>run 802.11g using the atheros drivers.  However, I've been trying to get 
>>it to work for the past three days w/o success.  Other people on this list 
>>claim to have gotten it working, so any help would be much appreciated.
>
>I have it working on mine, but mine is version B3 Firmware 2.36
>
>>
>>My setup is:  -current (from early July) on a Dell 8600, running a 
>>Broadcom ethernet interface on bfe0, and a kernel recompiled with "device 
>>ath" and "device ath_hal".
>>
>>When I put the Dlink card in, i get the following:
>>
>>cardbus0:  Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
>>bfe1: < Broadcom ... > irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
>>bfe1: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42C to clear
>>bfe1: MII without any PHY!
>>device_attach: bfe1 attach returned 6
>>cbb0: Cardbus activation failed.
>
>What happens if you have the card in during bootup? That seems to be the 
>only way I can get it to work properly in mine. It also doesnt like my LAN 
>card operating, so I usually have to take that down prior to setting any IP 
>address or anything on the ath0 card.
>
>>
>>Then a few seconds later I get something like
>>
>>bfe0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42C
>>
>>about 6 times, and then the computer freezes.  The above line is not the 
>>exact output, since after the computer freezes, I can't copy the text 
>>(clearly..).
>>
>>Now, the above is strange because the card should be picked up by an 
>>atheros driver, not the bfe driver (note that bfe0 is my internal ethernet 
>>card, and the above is trying to assign the pccard to bfe1).  I've tryed 
>>putting in hw.pccard.debug=1 and cis_debug=1, however the computer freezes 
>>before I get any output from those.
>>
>>I've read in other posts on the lists that the "Resource not specified" 
>>line is some sort of resource management issue, but no one has specified 
>>how to fix it.  And that doesn't seem to address the other issue that the 
>>card isn't recognized by the atheros driver.
>>
>>So... I'm at a loss as to what to do.
>>
>>Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>>regards,
>>Mike
>>
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>
>Let me know if that helps, I am sending this directly to you because my 
>hosting providers mailserver never seems able to send to the freebsd-mobile 
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>
>Geoff

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