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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:39:26 +0900
From:      Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong@gmail.com>
To:        Jim Andersson <freebsddog@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FW: 8187SE driver
Message-ID:  <20090128103926.GA82455@freebsd.weongyo.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY116-W139E51D9C6F382563136CDC2CB0@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY116-W43FCBE35A23C75CE3DC80CC2D70@phx.gbl> <20090116040425.GB66457@freebsd.weongyo.org> <BAY116-W46556402FC6C17CFA0A86EC2D50@phx.gbl> <20090119101623.GC81329@freebsd.weongyo.org> <BAY116-W139E51D9C6F382563136CDC2CB0@phx.gbl>

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> 
> From: freebsddog@hotmail.com
> To: weongyo@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: 8187SE driver
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:22:15 +0100
> 
> > From: weongyo.jeong@gmail.com
> > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:16:23 +0900
> > To: freebsddog@hotmail.com
> > CC: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: 8187SE driver
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:16:43PM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > From: weongyo.jeong@gmail.com
> > > > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:04:26 +0900
> > > > To: freebsddog@hotmail.com
> > > > CC: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
> > > > Subject: Re: 8187SE driver
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:48:32AM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > >  
> > > > > Is there any chance of getting my wireless card running in
> > > > > CURRENT. Linux says it�s a Realtek 8187SE wireless network
> > > > > card. I have seen some driver for other 8187 cards, is it
> > > > > possible to force such driver to try identify the card?
> > > > >  
> > > > >  
> > > > > Here is the output of pciconf -lv in my FreeBSD
> > > > > CURRENT:none1@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x819910ec
> > > > > chip=0x819910ec rev=0x22 hdr=0x00vendor = 'Realtek
> > > > > Semiconductor'class = network .
> > > > 
> > > > I think a thing you can try is that, NDISulator using ndis(4).  AFAIK
> > > > there's no support for 8187SE driver until now.
> > > > 
> > > > regards,
> > > > Weongyo Jeong
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I tried ndisulator but it didn´t work. I used the INF and the SYS
> > > file for Windows Xp. I even tried including a cat file.
> > > Although one thing changed, the card is no longer listed when i
> > > type pciconf -lv. Dunno if that´s good or bad?
> > 
> > It looks it's a bad news.  Could you please show me dmesg's ouput and
> > steps you followed?
> > 
> > regards,
> > Weongyo Jeong
> > 
> 
> As far as I can see the only thing in dmesg regarding this card is:
> 
> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
> pci1: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> 
> What I did was this: I used my windows xp drivers for the card that I
> recieved with the computer. I used the .sys and the inf file. The
> driver loads good but no interface is shown. Is the someway to force
> the driver to attach to pci2 somehow?

Normally if it works well the device should be detected automatically
and should show some messages related with ndis(4).  It looks there are
another problems in your case.  BTW there's no way to force the driver
to attach.

> Or is there some way to use a linux driver? Linux says its a realtek
> 8187SE.

No way to use the linux driver.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong




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