PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (Device not configured)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:09:05 +0200
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>> But compiling wpi-freebsd fails (see attached error log)
>>
>> Iguess I must be doing something wromg here. Do I need to place this
>> souce code (the driver) in /usr/src somewhere?
>
> It was something I wasn't doing. :-)
>
> I found out after lookking at the error log that I needed to link the
> 'wpi' directory in the driver source to /sys/dev/wpi.
> I had put the source in /home/tingo/work/wpi-freebsd, so I issued the
> commands
> cd /usr/src/sys
> ln -s /home/tingo/work/wpi-freebsd/wpi
>
> and ''ifconfig wpi0':
> root at kg-home# ifconfig wpi0
> wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        ether 00:13:02:3e:d4:ce
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>        status: no carrier
>        ssid "" channel 1
>        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
>
> Looks good. Let's see if it works too.
> Nope, it seems like the firmware framework (or module) is the problem. From /var/log/messages:
>
> (the last 3 lines repeats).
> So, anything I can do to make the firmware work?

Read my original email.  Hint:

   kldload firmware.ko
   kldload wpi_ucode.ko
   kldload if_wpi.ko

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