Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:42:27 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp> Cc: shigeru@iij.ad.jp, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch for wi driver Message-ID: <200012120742.AAA27690@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:55:21 PST." <200012120655.eBC6tLD01580@duplo.sm.sony.co.jp> References: <200012120655.eBC6tLD01580@duplo.sm.sony.co.jp> <200012120601.XAA27185@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200012120655.eBC6tLD01580@duplo.sm.sony.co.jp> Atsushi Onoe writes: : I've once failed 3com card to work with NetBSD's wi driver, and I asked : tech-net@netbsd.org whether anyone can use it, but no response. : I suspect the 3com card works with 'an' driver since the : shape of the 3com card is very similar to aironet, IIRC. I tried the an driver (and the awi driver before discovering that it was for prism I cards only). It failed to reset for the 'an' driver. I've not tried to instrument the an driver to find out why it fails. The wi driver gets the right MAC address from the 3com card right. It just fails to init in wi_reset. : card chipset firmware driver shape : ------------------------------------------- : Lucent Lucent Lucent(*) wi (same) : (many) PRISM-II Lucent(*) wi (vary) : Aironet PRISM-II Aironet an (same) : : (*)the firmware might be derived from other than Lucent. I have no idea who did the firmware for the 3com card. It has two antennas. Or at least two connectors that look like antenna connectors. This is the same as some of the aironet cards that I've seen (but not the same as the cisco 342 that I have). The an driver supports two antennas so this is suggestive. However, Mr. Shigeru Yamamoto-san's collect of wireless cards contains two cards that looks exactly like the 3com AirConnect card. Even with the funky antenna connector with the two leds my 3com card has. One card worked with the wi driver w/o changes. I was able to connect to the net at BSDcon. There was a second one that looked the same that didn't work. Yamamoto-san suggested that it worked with NetBSD-current's wi driver. Given the extensive nature of Yamamoto-san's collection, I'm afraid that I don't have the names of these cards and I'd admit that it is possible that my memory is fuzzy about this. Yamamoto-san has more wireless cards than I have ethernet cards, it seems. I've not tried NetBSD with this card yet. I've not setup my laptop to boot NetBSD as well as FreeBSD. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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