Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 17:15:52 -0500 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> Cc: freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cisco Aironet MPI350: dualboot Message-ID: <1075673752.269.2.camel@loyalsock> In-Reply-To: <200401310559.i0V5xaYF014287@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> References: <200401310559.i0V5xaYF014287@Espresso.NEEBU.Net>
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Jake, Thanks very much! I was able to perform this and make it work on both XP and FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE boots. (Had to pound them both with the proverbial baseball bat a couple of times, but I got it working :) Never would have thought (or found) of downgrading the NDIS drivers. Thanks again, DW On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 00:59, Jake Khuon wrote: > ### On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:19:03 -0500, Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> > ### casually decided to expound upon freebsd-mobile > ### <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> the following thoughts about "Cisco Aironet > ### MPI350: dualboot": > > DW> But now, unfortunately, I'm in a situation where I need to configure > DW> some laptops with dualboot (XP & FreeBSD). I think what I've discovered > DW> is that while the old firmware must be used for FreeBSD/Linux, the cisco > DW> adapter won't work under XP unless the firmware is upgraded, thus I > DW> think I'm looking at a conflict of interests here. > DW> (summary: it seems that if I upgrade the firmware to the latest version, > DW> wireless in xp will work, but when I activate 'an0' in freebsd and run > DW> dhclient, my t30 seizes. Conversely, if i downgrade the firmware, > DW> freebsd works, but then XP can't negotiate a dhcp address.) > > I'm running the older firmware (5.00.01) on my card. In order to make it > work in Windows, you need to install NDIS driver version 2.2.2 instead of > the newer Windows NDIS drivers. You should then be able to dual-boot fine. > > Here's the procedure I used: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-December/002525.html > > > -- > /*===================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> ]======================+ > | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | > | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | > +=========================================================================*/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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