Re: PCI 802.11b w/NetBSD 1.6

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Shingo WATANABE / [ISO-2022-JP] ÅÏÊÕ ¿­¸ã wrote:

> At Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:58:34 +0000 (GMT),
> Jasper Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Shingo WATANABE / [ISO-2022-JP] ÅÏÊÕ ¿­¸ã wrote:
> >
> > > At Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:18:29 -0600,
> > > David Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > A lot of people report this problem. I am not able to reproduce it,
> > > > myself. Maybe it is because I test on much slower computers.
> > > >
> > > > Be sure that you are using the latest ic/wi.c (1.109) and pci/if_wi_pci.c
> > > > (1.16), since I have recently fixed bugs in both.
> > >

> It is not pcmcia card. It is a internal wireless network interface in
> IBM ThinkPad X30 (2672-4EJ).
> The dmesg says:
> 	wi0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: Intersil Prism2.5 Wireless Lan
> 	wi0: interrupting at irq 11
> 	wi0: 802.11 address 00:05:3c:06:32:c9
> 	wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
> 	wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)
> 	wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>
> > Do you have the PCIBIOS options enabled in your kernel?
>
> YES, I use.

including PCIBIOS_ADDR_FIXUP  (see pcibios(4) for details).

It would probably help to post your kernel config and complete dmesg.

> > you could try increasing the size of the kernel message buffer (options
> > MSGBUFSIZE) and then enabling PCI_CONFIG_DUMP and PCIVERBOSE to dump the pci
> > space info for your wi device.
> >
> > or you can use pcictl to do the same thing... (pcictl is probably eaiser).
> >
> > I wouldn't be able to interpret the output, but you could compare it to
> > someone who has a working version of this card.
>
> I would like to know someone use the wirelss card (Intersil Prism2.5
> w/ PCI interface) without problem...  I have no more PCI wireless card.



> Is the problem related to PCI configuration?

That was my guess, it might be that areas of memory that the card/driver use
are setup wrong so that the driver is writing commands to somewhere that
isn't mapped to the card.

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