Re: e-mobility Nortel Networks WLAN card problem

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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            "Philippe Givet" <[email protected]> writes:
: I am trying to install an e-mobility Nortel Networks WLAN card with PCI 
: adapter on my freeBSD 4.6 station.
: 
:  From scratch, no 'wi0' in the dmesg result
: I saw the card on pciconf -l result ([email protected] ....) 
: 
: So I added the card in the pci_ids[] array of 
: /usr/src/sys/dev/wi/if_wi_pci.c and rebuilded the kernel.
: dmesg result is :
: ...
: wi0:<e-mobility Nortel Networks> port oxd ....
: wi0:wi_pci_attach()failed to enable pci !
: device probe_and_attach:wi attach returned 6
: and pciconf -l result :
: ...
: none@pci1:13:0 ..... 
: 
: Any idea to help me ? 

Maybe this card needs to have the same sort of things that OpenBSD
does for its pci attachment.  We only do a subset of them.  You might
want to investigate this more closely and report back.  I'd do it, but
I don't have the time at the moment.

Warner

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