Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: jbarrett@amduat.net (Jacob S. Barrett) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More TrueMobile 1300 Message-ID: <20040312191625.47F6E16A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200403120919.24936.jbarrett@amduat.net> from "Jacob S. Barrett" at "Mar 12, 2004 09:19:24 am"
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> I have a TrueMobile 1300 PCMCIA card. I have compiled and successfully
> loaded
> the NDIS drivers (5-Current as of 8pm last night).
I'm assuming these are the drivers which came with your laptop.
> The card is detected on
> insert. Despite all this, all I can seem to do with it is turn the power led
> on and off (ifconfig up/down). The wicontrol -l command lists the AP in my
> network. If I configure the interface with the SSID and keys it will never
> associate. I know a few people have said they have it working, so I am
> wondering what I am doing wrong. Can anyone make sense of the mess below?
>
> Is it normal for the PCMCIA card to show "Mini-PCI" on insert. Is this
> because the drivers are the same for both cards?
The description comes from the .INF file that goes with the driver.
There are entries which should match the PCI vendor/device ID and
subsystem ID of your device (which you can find with pciconf -lv).
Sometimes, drivers will match specific vendor/device/subsystem IDs
in order to handle specific card variants. Some only care about the
vendor/device ID and ignore the subsystem ID; in those cases the
driver can handle all the variants equally well.
>From the driver's perspective, cardbus and PCI devices loop pretty
much identical.
> dmesg:
> ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0x88002000-0x88003fff irq
> 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
> ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
> ndis0: 802.11 address: 00:10:c6:30:ed:98
> ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>
> ifconfig:
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::210:c6ff:fe30:ed98%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> ether 00:10:c6:30:ed:98
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> status: no carrier
> ssid ""
> channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
> wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:40-bit
You don't show what command(s) you typed to initialize the interface.
You also don't say what kind of AP you're trying to associate with.
-Bill
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