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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:36:55 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, cristjc@comcast.net
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linksys WPC11 v4 and Netgear MA401RA Troubles
Message-ID:  <20030814.233655.35978822.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030814235432.GA85523@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <20030814235432.GA85523@blossom.cjclark.org>

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In message: <20030814235432.GA85523@blossom.cjclark.org>
            "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@comcast.net> writes:
: At first, nothing was working at all until I learned the magical,
: hw.cbb.start_memory="0x2000000", incantation. Now NEWCARD actually
: works.

0x20000000 might be too low.  I typically see this set to 0xfxxxxxxx.

: I found my MA401 seems to work fine with OLDCARD on both 5.1 and
: 4.8. At least, it gets loaded up and ifconfig(8) sees it fine. Since
: I've only ever had one card working, I don't have much of a network to
: test on yet.

Cool.

: However, the MA401 is making trouble in NEWCARD, as in the system
: locks up. Locks up hard. The only way out is to power cycle. Before I
: found the miracle of hw.cbb.start_memory, the card didn't work, but it
: didn't lock up the system either. The debug output looked like,

I don't understand why this isn't working for you, unless you don't
have wi in your generic kernel for some reason.  5.1 should have
support for this card.  I know that current does, and cvs seems to
tell me that 5.1 should also.

Warner



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