Re: e-mobility Nortel Networks WLAN card problem

Thank you for this explaination Nick, but it do not work with PLX or NATIVE
flag.
I have got the same output in /var/log/message.

Regards,

Philippe Givet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Sayer" <[email protected]>
To: "Philippe Givet" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: e-mobility Nortel Networks WLAN card problem


>
> There are two ways to add a new pci card to the list in if_wi_pci.c:
> With the "native" PCI or the PLX flag. You must get that flag right.
>
> Almost without exception, the cards that have the PLX flag have a PCCard
> slot and a single big chip on the PCI card that says PLX on it.
>
> The PLX chip is a PCI<->generic PIO bus interface. It's a great way to
> hook up non-DMA devices to PCI. In fact, if I were going to design a PCI
> card that had a pair of sio ports on it, I'd simply put a pair of 16550s
> behind a PLX chip. :-) In the case of these adapter cards, they've
> simply hard-wired the generic bus up to the pccard slot in such a way
> that they're just mapping the PCCard I/O space into PCI space and gating
> the interrupts. As such, there's no particular reason that the PLX
> adapter boards could not instead be made to live under the pcic
> framework. Then they'd accept any pccards, not just wi ones. Of course,
> they're not hot-pluggable (they lack any sort of insert or remove
> notification), and their interface is nothing like a true PCCard bridge.
>
> But I digress.
>
> If you don't see a big PLX chip on the board, try marking it as a
> "native" pci and see if that works. If not, then I'd say you've found
> something new. :-)
>
>
> Philippe Givet wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
> > Thanks,
> > Philippe Givet
> >
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