Intel 3945ABG with ipw driver on CURRENT

Frank Staals frankstaals at gmx.net
Wed Oct 3 09:07:19 PDT 2007


Hey,

Last week I finally received my Dell Latitude D630 which is using the 
Intel 3945ABG chipset for it's wireless connectivity. This should be 
supported with the ipw driver which is available in CURRENT. 
Unfortunately my card is not detected when loading the module. I 
included the information which I asumed to be relevant. Does anyone what 
I can do to fix it. I allready read there were some problems with the 
ipw driver, but that was allready from a while ago.

By the way; I also tried using ndiswrapper, unfortunately my system 
crashed when trying to load the kernel module so that's not realy an 
option either.

root at Rena# uname -a
FreeBSD Rena.FStaals.net 7.0-CURRENT-200709 FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT-200709 
#0: Tue Sep 11                        04:44:48 UTC 2007     
root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

root at Rena# cat /boot/loader.conf
snd_hda_load="YES"
if_ipw_load="YES"
ipw_bss_load="YES"
ipw_ibss_load="YES"
ipw_monitor_load="YES"
legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

root at Rena# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   25 0xc0400000 91fe14   kernel
 2    1 0xc0d20000 9fd8     if_ipw.ko
 3    1 0xc0d2a000 14de4    snd_hda.ko
 4    2 0xc0d3f000 52a08    sound.ko
 5    1 0xc0d92000 34e78    ipw_bss.ko
 6    1 0xc0dc7000 32f14    ipw_ibss.ko
 7    1 0xc0dfa000 31d18    ipw_monitor.ko
 8    1 0xc0e2c000 6b1b4    acpi.ko
 9    1 0xc568e000 11000    ext2fs.ko
10    1 0xc57b6000 22000    linux.ko
11    1 0xc5a26000 6000     i915.ko
12    1 0xc5a2c000 f000     drm.ko

root at Rena# dmesg -a | grep ipw

root at Rena# ifconfig
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 00:1c:23:10:1b:ae
        inet 192.168.2.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        ether 46:4f:c0:22:14:70
        ch 1 dma -1
fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        lladdr 44.4f.c0.0.1d.22.14.70.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
root at Rena#

Regards,

-- 
-Frank Staals




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