Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:50:05 -1000 From: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (to: Sam Leffler) EMP-8602 400mw 802.11a/g/b wireless mini-pci Message-ID: <170FCF3C-B51D-49B2-BCB5-1129A7DAF579@netgate.com>
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(I got involved outside the list, so I've subscribed to freebsd- mobile to respond directly.) The cards do work in freebsd-6.1 (and 6.0, albeit with a version advanced HAL, which is present in most of the pfSense distributions for the past 3-4 months. There are two potential issues that I can think of: 1) 0xffin the upper nibble of the device ID typically means a pre- production card. Netgate hasn't sold any pre-production 8602s into its customer base (and our records show that <pconover@ipro.net>, while being a customer (thank you), didn't purchase any 8602 cards from us. In any case, if the card is, indeed "pre-production", it should probably be replaced. 2) Its possible that the PCI reset timing is causing this issue. Although this is the 'freebd-mobile' list, I have been told that the application here is actually in a PC Engines WRAP board. Be aware that PC Engines recently released an update to the BIOS for its WRAP boards. From the release notes: > WRAP BIOS revision history: > ; v1.11 > ; pd 051108 extend insufficient PCI reset pulse width - caused > ; problems with Atheros single chip cards. > The 8602 cards are (indeed) based on a single-chip Atheros part. It would behoove <pconover@ipro.net> to check that the WRAP board is actually running this release of the BIOS (or later). Jim Thompson netgate
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