Re: NDIS driver Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG reaches kernel panic

Coincidently, I tried to revert to the ndis wrapper for my 2200bg after
several months using if_iwi... (iwi has some problems: won't associate
with hidden ssid host & the g speed negociation leaves something to be
desired)

I am experiencing the same panic on a very recent current:

FreeBSD rainbow.kuatcom.local 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #5: Sat
Jun 11 03:15:34 MST 2005

4 months ago if_ndis worked fine with this card... Can't tell you when
it broke (just tried today...). 

Supplimentary information can be provided if anyone is interested in
working on the problem.

FYI (Probably unrelated): The only thing that changed in my config is
the addition of ULE+PREEMPTION.



On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 00:24 +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Le Vendredi 10 juin 2005 à 18:48 -0600, Braulio José Solano Rojas a
> écrit :
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a ASUS S5200N.  Runs very nice!
> > 
> > However I still need to install Wifi.  I saw that Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> > 2200BG is not supported by wlan FreeBSD driver (reading through the man
> > pages).  Then I found that I could use the NDIS driver added on FreeBSD
> > 5.3 to achieve Wireless Networking.
> 
> 	This chipset is supported by iwi(4) driver, but it hasn't been 
> 	MFC'ed to RELENG_5.
> 
> 	Here [1] is a port I'm planning to commit that installs the 
> 	needed firmware and optionally (you seem to need it though) a 
> 	kernel module to support your card.
> 
> 	I can't test it by myself, so I'd be glad you test it for me.
> 
> 	It has a rcNG script, if you just put iwi_enable="YES" it will
> 	try to set iwi0 in bss mode. Just put if_iwi_enable="YES" in
> 	/boot/loader.conf so that it works at boot time. See pkg-message
> 	for more information.
> 
> 	Note: It needs latest modifications I just committed to 
> 	net/ipw-firmware. 
> 
> 	Note2: Sorry, it has nothing to do with ndis(4).
> 
> 	[1] http://www.xbsd.org/~flz/ports/iwi-firmware.shar
> 
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