802.11b works, 11g not, Dell TrueMobile 1300

[Paul Schenkeveld]

Hi,

I'm running -current (cvsupped last night) on a Dell Latitude D800 with
internal TrueMobile 1300 802.11b/g card and the ndisulator.

802.11b works fine but whatever 11g mode I try to configure, all I get is:

    # ifconfig ndis0 media autoselect mode 11g
    ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mode): Invalid argument

(all 11g modes produce the same error).

I've tried the driver on the cdrom that came with the computer and the
latest driver (and some older versions) found on the Dell support site,
all with the same results.

The card seems to be detected correctly (full dmesg at the end of this
email):

    ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0xfafec000-0xfafedfff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci2
    ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    can't re-use a leaf (Country)!
    can't re-use a leaf (Channel)!
    ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
    ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:96:af:ef:4d
    ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
    ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

Two observations:

1. When unzipping the .exe, I find the following .sys and .inf files:

    AR/bcmwl5.inf
    AR/bcmwl5.sys
    AR/bcmwl5a.inf
    dellsys/DELLOMCI.INF
    dellsys/OMCINT4.SYS
    dellsys/OMCIWDM.SYS
    IR/bcmwl5.inf
    IR/bcmwl5.sys
    IR/bcmwl5a.inf
    bcmwlntp.sys

    The files in dellsys seem inappropriate, AR/bcmwl5.inf and
    IR/bcmwl5.inf are binary and not accepted by ndiscvt so I tried
    both the AR/bcmwl5a.inf (with AR/bcmwl5.sys) and IR/bcmwl5a.inf
    (IR/bcmwl5.sys) which seem to produce loadable if_ndis.ko files that
    work in 11b mode.

    Other people on this list mentioned bcmwl5.inf files being
    used with ndiscvt but the above is all I could find.

2.  After loading the international version of the driver, it seems
    to default to dev.ndis.0.Country=US, I'm in NL and assume that the
    TrueMobile card I bought here through Dell is the international
    version too.

    Setting dev.ndis.0.Country=NL does not seem to cure the problem,
    leaving it set to US and using the driver for the US also produces
    the same error message.

I reached the end of my rope, any ideas where to look or even how to
solve this?

Thanks for any help,

Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant
PSconsult ICT Services BV

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Full dmesg output:

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Sun Jun 27 13:47:33 CEST 2004
    paul at ko-yao.psconsult.nl:/source/obj/source/KO-YAO5/new/src/sys/KOYAO5
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc08bd000.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_ich.ko" at 0xc08bd1cc.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc08bd278.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/ndis.ko" at 0xc08bd324.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/if_ndis.ko" at 0xc08bd3d0.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz (1698.57-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x695  Stepping = 5
  Features=0xa7e9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 536535040 (511 MB)
avail memory = 515342336 (491 MB)
random: <entropy source, Software, Yarrow>
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
acpi0: <DELL CPi R  > on motherboard
acpi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (4 Cx states)> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib0: slot 29 INTA is routed to irq 11
pcib0: slot 29 INTB is routed to irq 11
pcib0: slot 29 INTC is routed to irq 11
pcib0: slot 29 INTD is routed to irq 11
pcib0: slot 31 INTB is routed to irq 11
agp0: <Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe8000000-0xefffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib1: slot 0 INTA is routed to irq 11
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ums0: Logitech USB Mouse, rev 1.10/6.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir.
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xf4fffc00-0xf4ffffff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ehci_pci_attach: companion usb0
ehci_pci_attach: companion usb1
ehci_pci_attach: companion usb2
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
pcib2: slot 0 INTA is routed to irq 11
pcib2: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 11
pcib2: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 11
pcib2: slot 3 INTA is routed to irq 11
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3001> mem 0xfaff0000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5705 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:1f:14:93:18
bge0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
cbb0: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 1.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
pcib2: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 11
cbb1: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 1.1 on pci2
cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
fwohci0: vendor=104c, dev=802b
fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xfafe8000-0xfafebfff,0xfafef800-0xfafeffff irq 11 at device 1.2 on pci2
fwohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 47:4f:c0:00:10:ab:10:30
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 46:4f:c0:ab:10:30
fwe0: Ethernet address: 46:4f:c0:ab:10:30
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
pci2: <base peripheral> at device 1.3 (no driver attached)
ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0xfafec000-0xfafedfff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci2
ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
can't re-use a leaf (Country)!
can't re-use a leaf (Channel)!
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:96:af:ef:4d
ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 11 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec>
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
ppc0 port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 1 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sio1 port 0x280-0x287,0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 drq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcf800-0xcffff,0xcf000-0xcf7ff,0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1698565689 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging unlimited
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, unlimited logging
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized.  Default = block all, Logging = enabled
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
cpu0: Performance states changed
ad0: 19077MB <IC25N020ATMR04-0> [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GCA-4040N> at ata1-master UDMA33
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GCA-4040N C108> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray closed
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
ums0: at uhub1 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
ums0: detached
ums0: Logitech USB Mouse, rev 1.10/6.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir.