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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:52:46 -0500
From:      Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?
Message-ID:  <200610211852.46359.lane@joeandlane.com>

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Hello,

I've a new inspiron 6400 running FreeBSD 6.1 and I can't get Wireless to work.  
It works on WXP using the Dell WLAN drivers at 
http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE

I've followed the instructions at 
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/05/freebsd-howto-ndisulate-windows-drivers/
but no ndis driver shows up after kldload if_ndis.  

ifconfig -a looks like:

bfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::215:c5ff:feb8:39e%bfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 172.16.1.42 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.1.255
        ether 00:15:c5:b8:03:9e
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
fwe0: flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> 
mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::304f:c0ff:fe9c:7541%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
        ether 32:4f:c0:9c:75:41
        ch 1 dma 0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

It seems as if the fwe0 devices wants to be the wireless, as the bfe0 driver 
is my "wired" ethernet card.

pciconf -lv gives vendor and class as "Broadcom" and "network," but does not 
show the device information, so I'm stumped.

hostb0@pci0:0:0:        class=0x060000 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27a08086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
none0@pci0:2:0: class=0x030000 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27a28086 rev=0x03 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    class    = display
    subclass = VGA
none1@pci0:2:1: class=0x038000 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27a68086 rev=0x03 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    class    = display
none2@pci0:27:0:        class=0x040300 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27d88086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio'
    class    = multimedia
pcib1@pci0:28:0:        class=0x060400 card=0x00000040 chip=0x27d08086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Root Port'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
pcib2@pci0:28:3:        class=0x060400 card=0x00000040 chip=0x27d68086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Root Port'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
uhci0@pci0:29:0:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27c88086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci1@pci0:29:1:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27c98086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci2@pci0:29:2:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27ca8086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci3@pci0:29:3:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27cb8086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
ehci0@pci0:29:7:        class=0x0c0320 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27cc8086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
pcib3@pci0:30:0:        class=0x060401 card=0x00000050 chip=0x24488086 
rev=0xe1 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801BAM/CAM/DBM (ICH2-M/3-M/4-M) Hub Interface to PCI Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
isab0@pci0:31:0:        class=0x060100 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27b98086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Controller'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-ISA
atapci0@pci0:31:2:      class=0x010180 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27c48086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = ATA
none3@pci0:31:3:        class=0x0c0500 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x27da8086 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = SMBus
none4@pci11:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x00071028 chip=0x431114e4 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    class    = network
bfe0@pci3:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x01af1028 chip=0x170c14e4 rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM440x 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
fwohci0@pci3:1:0:       class=0x0c0010 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x08321180 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Ricoh Co Ltd'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = FireWire
none5@pci3:1:1: class=0x080501 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x19 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Ricoh Co Ltd'
    device   = 'SD Bus Host Adapter'
    class    = base peripheral
none6@pci3:1:2: class=0x088000 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x08431180 rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Ricoh Co Ltd'
    class    = base peripheral
none7@pci3:1:3: class=0x088000 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x05921180 rev=0x0a 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Ricoh Co Ltd'
    device   = 'Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter'
    class    = base peripheral
none8@pci3:1:4: class=0x088000 card=0x01bd1028 chip=0x08521180 rev=0x05 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Ricoh Co Ltd'
    class    = base peripheral

Any help is appreciated.

lane



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