Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:17:20 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: -STABLE wi driver doesn't work with D-Link DWL-650, but older driver does Message-ID: <3B250B30.3D4CBBA4@eng.ufl.edu>
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I got my D-Link DWL-650 802.11b pccard working in FreeBSD 4.2, and then upgraded my system to 4.3 STABLE on 5 June. The card stopped working. The driver can't initialize, and worse, it renders the PCMCIA ports unusable by my wired Ethernet card until I power down the system (I haven't tried rebooting without powering down -- a reboot may be sufficient). I.E. once the wi driver has tried to attach, my other card cannot attach either. I tried using pccardc to power down the slots and restart them, but that didn't help. This is in an Inspiron 7500, which has a similar "dead PCMCIA" problem when I leave Windows 98 and boot FreeBSD - it has to be powered down between them. Looking at the wi driver change log, I guessed that the problem was introduced on April 22 when the attach method was changed, so I "downgraded" to RELENG_4_3, and that solved the problem for now. If I find the time, I will load appropriate snapshots into my spare laptop (a 486), and see if I can confirm the date the problem appeared. Alan Strand posted a description of the same problem to -questions on June 2 (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2894977+2904476+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-questions/20010603.freebsd-questions ) with a fair amount of initial diagnostic detail. I didn't repeat all of his work, but the behavior is similar: I can use pccardc to view the card, but the wi driver can't attach. The card has another problem: I can't get it to use encryption. This was true in 4.2 as well. This bothers me more than the -STABLE driver problem, because I really need encryption, but I'm happy running RELENG_4_3 for now. If anyone can suggest a way to get encryption working, or needs more diagnostic information regarding the attach problem, let me know. I don't have the laptop with me so I don't have exact error messages, but I can get them in the next day or two. Thanks, - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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