NDISulator and "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG" - no connection cache and signal strength info

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В пн, 20/09/2004 в 01:01 +0400, Andrey Smirnov пишет:
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:54:24 +0400, Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Exercising on fresh 6-CURRENT
> > 
> > ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection> mem
> > 0xd0201000-0xd0201fff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci2
> > ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:03:82:74
> > ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> > ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> > 
> > Anybody can provide some clues ?
> 
> I've got Intel 2200BG with my Asus M3700Np notebook. Today installed
> it under FreeBSD with NDIS. Used drivers from Intel installation CD,
> sorry, at the moment can't provide any details. I have no problems
> with it:
> kldload if_ndis
> ifconfig ndis0 ssid xxxx wepmode on wepkey 0xxxxxx
> dhclient ndis0
> 
> and here it works! 

Yes, all mentioned by you works for me too, but signal quality reporting
via WI ioctl (or wicontrol) does not work.

> I've got only one small problem - if_ndis doesn't appear when loaded
> through /boot/loader.conf, only when loaded through kldload later.
> (Doesn't seem to be related to /compat/ndis, because firmware is
> integrated in the .SYS file, which goes directly to if_ndis.ko).

Hm, I've got such situation only once, and now all works fine for me
through boot loader:
...
ndis_load="YES"
if_ndis_load="YES"
...

> Andrey.

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru