ndis0 does not associate since update to RELENG_6

[Parv]

in message <20060117181849.592a2dfc at localhost>,
wrote Fabian Keil thusly...
>
> Parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:
> 
> > in message <20060117152716.6e9ec40d at localhost>,
> > wrote Fabian Keil thusly...
> > >
> > > Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I fail to get the following device working since my update
> > > > from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 a few days ago:
> > > > 
> > > > ndis0 at pci2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x27128086 chip=0x42208086
> > > > rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > >     device   = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'
> > > >     class    = network
> > > 
> > > I found a work around. It still works
> > > with /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware/:
> > 
> > I also found the same about ndis driver.  I was not even able to
> > assign a ssid, mode, or a channel to a ndis0 interface.
> > 
> > At least net/iwi-firmware works w/ WPA (even if the interface
> > causes freeze after waking up from long sleep on IBM Thinkpad
> > T42;
> 
> Did you try to load and unload if_iwi.ko in /etc/rc.resume and
> /etc/rc.suspend?

No, i hadn't; currently i am doing it manually when i am not sure
about the length of the sleep state.  I should look in to it, hunh.?


> > BTW, when i read that you "found a work around", i was expecting
> > a work around to make ndis work.
> 
> I'm sorry for my misleading wording then. Of course it's just a
> work around to get the PRO/Wireless 2200BG working at all.

No problem.  Actually, i myself am happy as long as there is some
way to have a secure (semi-)stable wireless connection, on FreeBSD,
w/ not-too-expensive hardware.


> It's just that I had forgotten about the existence of iwi.  The
> last days I was using em0 to connect my Laptop to the network.
> Getting if_iwi to work after my initial posting was a relief.

Same here, almost.  I had not looked particularly hard in iwi or
ndis -- but was aware of both -- until my sister's nagging broke me
to buy a wireless AP/router.


  - Parv

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