Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:59:41 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ndis on 6.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <43E72C1D.20522.271A72C@dan.langille.org>
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I'm trying, and failing so far, to get ndis running on 6.1-PRERELEASE (Sat Feb 4). I was using ipw but it frooze the system. I have an IBM ThinkPad T41. I grabbed the drivers from http://www- 307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59438 After downloading and extracting the files from 1rwc88ww.exe, I used w70n501.inf and w70n51.sys as inputs to ndisgen. When asked for firmware, I supplied w70n51.sys the input. The result was w70n51_sys.ko and w70n51.sys.ko I loaded ndis.ko, if_ndis.ko, w70n51.sys.ko, and w70n51_sys.ko (in that order). dmesg showed: ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter> mem 0xc0214000-0xc0214fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:f1:27:67:f5 ndis0 is unable to set/retain an SSID while it is UP. When DOWN, yes, it takes an SSID, but moving the card to UP loses the SSID: # ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20c:f1ff:fe27:67f5%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:0c:f1:27:67:f5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid foo channel 1 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 # ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20c:f1ff:fe27:67f5%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:0c:f1:27:67:f5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid foo channel 1 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 # ifconfig ndis0 up # ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20c:f1ff:fe27:67f5%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:0c:f1:27:67:f5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid "" channel 1 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 # Ideas? Suggestions? -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php
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