Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:16:07 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com> To: Antonio Varela Lizardi <antonio@icon.net.mx> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with WaveLAN Card Message-ID: <20000925111607.Q10523@schooner.svjava.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009251109370.65080-100000@asterix.icon.net.mx>; from antonio@icon.net.mx on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:11:51AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009251109370.65080-100000@asterix.icon.net.mx>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:11:51AM -0700, Antonio Varela Lizardi wrote: > > Apollogies in advance for the crossposting, but my deadline related to this > matter it's very close. > > I have a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 11Mbps PCMCIA Card, a Texas Instrument > (chipset recognized as 1225) PCMCIA-PCI Cardbus bridge (sold by lucent), a > regular Desktop PC and FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE. I just cannot get the card to > work. It's recognized sucessfully by pccardd, but I'm having an error: "tx > buffer allocation failed" with any network operation over the card. Diggin > out more, I've found that wi_seek( ) it's failing with a WI_TIMEOUT, when > wi_alloc_nicmem( ) calls to alloc the tx buffer, when wi_init ( ) tries to > initialize the card. The allocation of the management buffer suceeeds, and > that sounds strange. The wi driver talks straight to the Hermes Controller, > not using the card's firmware. I wonder if in this new product, the hardware > has changed. In the wi manpage it's written about supporting 6Mbps cards, > but never mentions 11Mbps cards. In the PAO FAQ found something about > configuring the card with the MSDOS utility, but I just can't find it, > neither CDROM/Website. Folks, you're my only hope, otherwise I'll have to > install Linux. Any hint or bad news (the 11mbps card is supported?) will be > welcome. Please help. as per the many discussions, as are available in the archives, the pci based bridge from lucent does not currently work. > I'm not subscribed to this lists, only to questions@freebsd.org. Please > respond to my email too. if you're going to ask the question on a list, you should be subscribed to that list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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