Intel 3945ABG with ipw driver on CURRENT

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:40 +0200, Frank Staals wrote:
> 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,
> 
Hey Frank

The 3945ABG isn't supported (yet) under FreeBSD. For 7.0 there has been
a 'wpi' driver in development, but it isn't complete yet. FYI, it is
being developed in p4 ->
http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/benjsc/wpi

Cheers

Tom
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