Support for W_LAN chip set TI TNETW1130GVF ?

[Julian Stacey]

Hi all on mobile at freebsd.org + 2 CC
I bought a SAFECOM SWLCT-54125 802.11g+ Wireless LAN CardBus PC Card
& am stuck, looking for ideas (Yes, stupid me, bought without checking
compatability, tempted by price (17 GBP), must have been mad, Mea Culpa!):

According to http://safecom.cn (Then type SAFECOM SWLCT-54125 into query box)
It uses Chipset TI TNETW1130GVF 
  http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tnetw1130.html#technicaldocuments
  Medium-Access Controller (MAC) and Baseband Processor For Spread-Spectrum WLAN  
  http://focus-webapps.ti.com/general/docs/sitesearch/searchsite.tsp?selectedTopic=1653260327&numRecords=25&searchTerm=tnetw1130&statusCode=null

I hope there's some chance, as the box features the Linux penguin, & quoting:
	http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/bcg/bcgprodcontent.tsp?templateId=6116&navigationId=12244&path=templatedata/cm/product/data/tnetw1130_main
	"All products submitted for 802.11g Wi-Fi certification
	 will be tested against TNETW1130-based reference designs."
	TI Product announcement also mentions:
		Like TI's ACX100 and ETW1100B, the TNETW1130 ....
		package, which is pin-for-pin compatible with TI's previous
		generation WLAN MAC/baseband processor device.

A diff -c of 2 x dmesg after boot -v , 
(with first a working USB2 card, & then reboot with WLAN card istead) shows:

      pcib2: cardbus0 requested memory range 0xfce00000-0xfcefffff: good
    ! cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x2c
    ! cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
    ! cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=20000
    ! pcib2: cardbus0 requested memory range 0xfce00000-0xfcefffff: good
    ! found->       vendor=0x104c, dev=0x9066, revid=0x00
            bus=4, slot=0, func=0
    !       class=02-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
            cmdreg=0x0000, statreg=0x0210, cachelnsz=8 (dwords)
    !       lattimer=0xa8 (5040 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
            intpin=a, irq=11
            powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
    ! cardbus0: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)

I have 2 partitions on the  laptop: 6.0 & 6.1-pre. I could change
6.1-pre to current if there's any code to try ?  I'm more used to
dealing with 16 bit cards with pccardd -d -v on FreeBSD 4 & 5, &
at a loss what to do.

Might Project Evil be a last way out ? (MS emul. of drivers far as
I recall) No way will I run Linux permanently on the laptop just
to get the WLAN working (though I suppose I might do a temporary
install to learn which driver & maybe find src/ to port, but I bet
it wouldnt be that easy ?

Progress Googling:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
http://dev.kewl.org/acx100/
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/07/21/1057231.shtml
http://dev.kewl.org/acx100/acx100-6.0-REL-soyer.tgz
http://dev.kewl.org/acx100/TEST/acx100-6.1.tgz

OK, that lot seems (superficially at least) for the previous generation chip,
but perhaps a good launch point ?
Per their web I did:
	cd firmware && make && cd ..
	make
	make install
	echo 'if_acx_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf
	gzip -c if_acx.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/acx.4.gz
	
& saw:
	install -o root -g wheel -m 555   if_acx.ko /boot/modules
	kldxref /boot/modules
reboot
Still no extra interface, though Ive got pccard_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
Any Suggestions & comments very welcome ! Thanks.

Julian
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Julian Stacey.  Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich.  http://berklix.com