Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:03:43 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: stable-list freebsd <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Subject: Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken Message-ID: <4BFA16BF.9080709@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100524034429.68C521CC3A@ptavv.es.net> References: <20100524034429.68C521CC3A@ptavv.es.net>
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On 24/05/2010 05:44, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:18:30 +0200 >> From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> >> On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: >>>> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>>>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>>> The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e"). >>>>> >>>>> Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card >>>>> in many IBM Thinkpad Laptops have a custom firmware, and the cards ID >>>>> is listed in the laptops BIOS. It won't work with any card not listed >>>>> there. There are ways to either flash the cards firmware or the BIOS >>>>> list, but I don't think that it's worth it. >>>> >>>> Just because I have this link handy: >>>> http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html >>>> >>>> That also has a link to some information on HP's version of the same thing. >>> >>> The official genuine parts list for my notebook only lists Intel and >>> Boradcom wireless modules. So I suppose I'll just have to risk >>> buying a PCIe Atheros that I cannot use. >> >> OK, this didn't really come as a surprise, the BIOS doesn't like >> Atheros: >> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >> System halted. Remove device and restart. >> >> I'm currently bypassing this by hotswapping the device after >> passing the BIOS check and I have to say, the Atheros device >> works great! No package loss, no interrupted connections ... >> even though I'm not very close to the AP. >> >> I put the connection under serious stress and it just keeps >> on working. It actually appears to be /reliable/. A term I >> never dared dream to apply to wireless networking. > > It should like the Atheros 5212 as IBM re-sold this a/b/g card for some > time as the "IBM a/b/g" card. I can believe that other Atheros cards > will fail, but that one, if you can find one, should work fine. It does > on my ThinkPad T43, thought the BIOS on yours may be a bit too old. (You > might want to look for BIOS updates that might support it.) > > ath0@pci0:11:2:0: class=0x020000 card=0x057e1014 chip=0x1014168c > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 HP here. The vendor never sold Atheros for this generation of notebooks. There are no Atheros IDs in the whitelist. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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