D-Link DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP

[Drew Broadley]

Dan Langille wrote:

>On 7 Jul 2004 at 19:01, Drew Broadley wrote:
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>>paul at rettersen.de wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>i have a problem with my D-Link DWL-650 RevP PC Card on my 5.x-current. After putting the in i have the following message on my monitor:
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>>>wi0: <D-Link DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP> at port 0x400 -0x407f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
>>>wi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>>wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won´t clear.
>>>:init failed
>>>device_attach: wi0 attach returned 6
>>>
>>>According to the hardware_list - the current version supports this card - where could be the problem?
>>>
>>>I tried NDIS as well, but after "kldload ndis.ko" and "kldload if_ndis.ko" I have the same message as above and no "ndis0"-interfaces in addition.
>>>
>>>Anyone any idea?
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>-paul
>>> 
>>>
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>>Have you done the following ?
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>>In /boot/loader.conf
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>>hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000"
>>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
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>The second line was needed for my 5.2.1-RELEASE box and an em0 card.  
>I found the first line wasn't needed, but didn't appear to do any 
>harm either.  Also, I understand the need for 
>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range has recently been removed, and so 
>should not be needed in recent -CURRENT.
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Well due to the lack of knowledge of  how recent he has cvsup'd to the 
latest src, I thought I would throw that in anyhow.
The first line was pretty much the same reason, "just in case". There is 
no harm in having them there.

"Peace of mind" :)

- Drew