Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 19:53:08 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Darren Pilgrim'" <dmp@bitfreak.org>, "'Carl Gustavsson'" <carl@thegoodone.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ndis with Intel 2915 wireless, getting "NDIS ERROR" messagesand deattach on boot Message-ID: <000001c54f8b$40b43ed0$9afb40d8@Sonomago> In-Reply-To: <000d01c54f70$73c0bdf0$9f3598d1@Sonomago>
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> From: Darren Pilgrim > From: Carl Gustavsson <carl@thegoodone.mine.nu>=20 > >=20 > > Have you tested the iwi-driver? > > See: http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html >=20 > I haven't yet. Reading that page has brought up another questions. = On the > page it says 5-STABLE doesn't support WPA. My wireless network uses = WPA. > Is this still the case? I know -stable is -stable, but WPA something = of a > show-stopper, if you ask me. >=20 > Fortunately, my neighborhood is a well-covered sea of open "linksys" = and > "NETGEAR" APs in default configuration with to test the driver. I'm using driver version 1.3.4 and firmware version 2.2. The driver = appears to attach just fine:=20 iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI> mem 0xdfcfd000-0xdfcfdfff = irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci3 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:f6:d6:5c iwi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps = 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps However, when I attempt to associate and get an IP address, I get "iwi0: fatal error" when running dhclient. Setting debug.iwi=3D10 and debug.ieee80211=3D10, I get the following debug output when I run the = firmware download and dhclient commands: # iwicontrol iwi0 -d /root/if_iwi/firmware-2.2 -m bss Firmware cached: boot 6464, ucode 16326, main 166952 # dhclient iwi0 INTR!0x01000000 INTR!0x01000000 Setting MAC address to 00:0e:35:f6:d6:5c TX!CMD!11!6 INTR!0x00000800 Configuring adapter TX!CMD!6!20 INTR!0x00000800 Setting power mode to 0 TX!CMD!17!4 INTR!0x00000800 Setting RTS threshold to 2312 TX!CMD!15!4 INTR!0x00000800 Setting .11bg supported rates (12) TX!CMD!22!16 INTR!0x00000800 Setting .11a supported rates (8) TX!CMD!22!16 INTR!0x00000800 Setting initialization vector to 693451133 TX!CMD!34!4 INTR!0x00000800 Enabling adapter TX!CMD!2!0 INTR!0x00000800 ieee80211_next_scan: chan 56->60 Start scanning TX!CMD!20!60 INTR!0x00000800 INTR!0x00000002 Notification (20) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (36) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (40) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (44) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (48) INTR!0x00000002 RX!DATA!68!52!58 ieee80211_recv_mgmt: new probe response on chan 52 (bss chan 52) "191" = from 00:0c:db:81:5e:a8 ieee80211_recv_mgmt: caps 0x401 bintval 100 erp 0x0 ieee80211_recv_mgmt: country info 55 53 20 24 04 11 34 04 17 95 05 1e INTR!0x00000002 Notification (25) Scan channel (52) INTR!0x00000002 RX!DATA!68!56!50 ieee80211_recv_mgmt: new probe response on chan 56 (bss chan 56) "191" = from 00:0c:db:81:5e:4a ieee80211_recv_mgmt: caps 0x401 bintval 100 erp 0x0 ieee80211_recv_mgmt: country info 55 53 20 24 04 11 34 04 17 95 05 1e INTR!0x00000002 Notification (25) Scan channel (56) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (60) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (64) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (149) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (153) INTR!0x00000002 Scan channel (157) INTR!0x40000000 iwi0: fatal error At which point dhclient stalls for several seconds before switching to = its background mode. `ifconfig iwi0` then shows "status: no carrier" and no = IP address assignment.
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