Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:37:01 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Netgear MA301 and other PIX based PrismII PCI adapters Message-ID: <200108230037.f7N0b6k15312@morpheus.kfu.com> In-Reply-To: <2672.216.101.175.66.998515230.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com> References: <2672.216.101.175.66.998515230.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com>
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On Wednesday August 22, 2001 02:20 pm, Nick Sayer wrote: > A friend and I are trying to get a machine of his (running RELENG_4) to go > with a Netgear MA401. The trick is, however, that this isn't a laptop. We > bought the MA301 PCI adapter, but that doesn't appear to be working. It > shows up as vendor 0x1385, device 0x4100. I tried substituting these in the > wi pci probe routine, but that just hung the machine at attach time. I went > to Fry's and took a couple of other brand PCI 802.11b cards out of the box > (shh!) and they all appear to be based on that same PIX chip (perhaps with > different vendor/device ID pairs). > > Has anyone got one of these to work? Do I try and get the PIX to be > recognized as a Cardbus bridge or do I have to hack the wi driver some > more? It turns out that my first instinct is correct. Adding 41001385 as another alternative PCI device match in /sys/i386/isa/if_wi.c works. It didn't work before because the card wasn't jammed all the way in the slot. :-) So it would appear that PrismII vendors all tend to do the same thing, but with different vendor/device ID numbers. This means that if_wi should really have some sort of list of them that is easily extendable. I will see what I can do and contact the wi maintainer, if there is one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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