Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:51:44 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Acer Aspire AS5672 and Intel PRO/Wireless 3945abg Message-ID: <20060728165144.fead1c51.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hi, I have a Acer Aspire AS5672WLMi laptop. Among other things, it has an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG inside. This laptop runs FreeBSD 6.1-stable. It also have a seriously broken BIOS / acpi, which means that I have to run with acpi disabled in order to make the wired network interface /bge0) work. About a week ago, I found out about the experimental 3945 driver at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/wpi-freebsd.tgz so naturallu, I had to try it. after making the driver compile and install, I did kldload firmware kldload wpi_ucode kldload if_wpi After that, I got this in /var/log/messages: Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xc8200000-0xc8200fff irq 17 at d evice 0.0 on pci3 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align me mory properly.bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory prop erly.bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.channel 1 pwr1 0x008a pwr2 0x0086 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 2 pwr1 0x0082 pwr2 0x008b Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 3 pwr1 0x008f pwr2 0x0092 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 4 pwr1 0x0092 pwr2 0x008f Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 5 pwr1 0x0000 pwr2 0x0000 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 6 pwr1 0x0080 pwr2 0x0080 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 7 pwr1 0x0080 pwr2 0x0080 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 8 pwr1 0x0081 pwr2 0x0080 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 9 pwr1 0x007f pwr2 0x0081 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 10 pwr1 0x0000 pwr2 0x0000 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 11 pwr1 0xfffe pwr2 0xfffe Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 12 pwr1 0x0001 pwr2 0x0001 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 13 pwr1 0xfffe pwr2 0xfffe Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: channel 14 pwr1 0x0001 pwr2 0x0001 Jul 22 20:51:58 kg-home kernel: wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:02:3e:d4:ce which looks promising. But it is followed by this: Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: setting h/w config 1200 Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: wpi0: fatal firmware error Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Rx ring Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: wpi0: timeout transferring firmware Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1 Jul 22 20:58:18 kg-home kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3 Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4 Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: setting h/w config 1200 Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpi_ucode Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpi_ucode' Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: setting h/w config 1200 Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpi_ucode Jul 22 20:58:19 kg-home kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpi_ucode' which indicates that it has problem loading the firmware. Question: when making the formware module (wpi_ucode), everything exists in that module, including the firmware itself, yes? There are no other files I need? Just for the hell of it, I booted the laptop with ACPI enabled (even if that means thwet bge0 won't work) and tried to get wpi working. It didn't. After booting, I did the usual kldload firmware kldload wpi_ucode kldload if_wpi here is the output from /var/log/messages: Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3 Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: wpi0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff). Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory resource Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 12 Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: bge0: <Broadcom BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4201> irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: bge0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff). Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: bge0: couldn't map memory Jul 28 16:19:32 kg-home kernel: device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6 Clearly, this doesn't work at all. Note: I do not know why it prints the lines regarding bge0 here, I have not even tried to configure bge0. It seems to be the same lines that are printed on boot for bge0: Jul 28 16:18:42 kg-home kernel: bge0: <Broadcom BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4201> irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 Jul 28 16:18:42 kg-home kernel: bge0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff). Jul 28 16:18:42 kg-home kernel: bge0: couldn't map memory Jul 28 16:18:42 kg-home kernel: device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6 Well, this was just a test. Any suggestions on what to try next to get this driver (wpi) working are welcome, as ndis doesn't work on the 3945abg. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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