7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

[Yuri Lukin]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote
> Hi all.
> So far I've failed to have a working wireless connection with this combination.
> 
> There are no FreeBSD drivers for the included intel 4965AG card.
> I've tried to use the ndiswrapper framework without success. The 
> ndisgen wizard runs without issues, but kldloading the driver 
> freezes and reboots the machine.

I dont think there's any support for this card in FreeBSD just yet. 

> 
> I've also tried two cardbus devices.
> 
> The Cisco Aironet - AIR CB21AG (ath driver):
> 
> Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x0
> 
> Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xbfeb0000-
> 0xbfebffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: ath0: [ITHREAD]
> Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL 
> status 13
> Oct 26 13:30:27 t61p kernel: device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> 

FWIW, I have a T61 (not the "p" version) with 7.0-PRERELEASE from Oct 15th and
have an integrated IBM miniPCI card that uses the ath driver without any problems:

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdf2f0000-0xdf2fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2

You should have no issues using the CB21AG adapter under FreeBSD. I have
several of these and have used them as far back as 6.0-RELEASE on multiple
laptops without any issues. In fact, I just dug one up and inserted it into my
T61 and it attached to ath1:

ath1: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ath1: [ITHREAD]
ath1: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath1: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 radio 3.6

> and the Conceptronic C54RC (ral driver):
> 

I have no experience with these. 

> I'm running:
> uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD t61p 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Fri Oct 26 13:10:37 
> WEST 2007 root at t61p:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> GENERIC kernel with ULE and without debugging.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to diagnose these issues?
> 

What does dmesg show for "ath" when you boot? Or can you post "pciconf -l -v"?


-Yuri