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Date:      Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:45:32 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel 3945ABG with ipw driver on CURRENT
Message-ID:  <1191429932.1475.30.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4703B7EF.6030603@gmx.net>
References:  <4703B7EF.6030603@gmx.net>

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On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:40 +0200, Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey,
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> Last week I finally received my Dell Latitude D630 which is using the=20
> Intel 3945ABG chipset for it's wireless connectivity. This should be=20
> supported with the ipw driver which is available in CURRENT.=20
> Unfortunately my card is not detected when loading the module. I=20
> included the information which I asumed to be relevant. Does anyone what=20
> I can do to fix it. I allready read there were some problems with the=20
> ipw driver, but that was allready from a while ago.
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> By the way; I also tried using ndiswrapper, unfortunately my system=20
> crashed when trying to load the kernel module so that's not realy an=20
> option either.
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> root@Rena# uname -a
> FreeBSD Rena.FStaals.net 7.0-CURRENT-200709 FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT-200709=20
> #0: Tue Sep 11                        04:44:48 UTC 2007    =20
> root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
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> root@Rena# cat /boot/loader.conf
> snd_hda_load=3D"YES"
> if_ipw_load=3D"YES"
> ipw_bss_load=3D"YES"
> ipw_ibss_load=3D"YES"
> ipw_monitor_load=3D"YES"
> legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=3D1
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> root@Rena# kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   25 0xc0400000 91fe14   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0d20000 9fd8     if_ipw.ko
>  3    1 0xc0d2a000 14de4    snd_hda.ko
>  4    2 0xc0d3f000 52a08    sound.ko
>  5    1 0xc0d92000 34e78    ipw_bss.ko
>  6    1 0xc0dc7000 32f14    ipw_ibss.ko
>  7    1 0xc0dfa000 31d18    ipw_monitor.ko
>  8    1 0xc0e2c000 6b1b4    acpi.ko
>  9    1 0xc568e000 11000    ext2fs.ko
> 10    1 0xc57b6000 22000    linux.ko
> 11    1 0xc5a26000 6000     i915.ko
> 12    1 0xc5a2c000 f000     drm.ko
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> root@Rena# dmesg -a | grep ipw
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> root@Rena# ifconfig
> bge0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1=
500
>         options=3D9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>         ether 00:1c:23:10:1b:ae
>         inet 192.168.2.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> fwe0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=3D8<VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 46:4f:c0:22:14:70
>         ch 1 dma -1
> fwip0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         lladdr 44.4f.c0.0.1d.22.14.70.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
> lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> root@Rena#
>=20
> Regards,
>=20
Hey Frank

The 3945ABG isn't supported (yet) under FreeBSD. For 7.0 there has been
a 'wpi' driver in development, but it isn't complete yet. FYI, it is
being developed in p4 ->
http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=3D//depot/user/benjsc=
/wpi

Cheers

Tom

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