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> My notebook is HP Compaq nc2400 running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
>
> kldload if_wpi give me
> Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem
> 0xf0000000-0xf0000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8
> Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory resource
> Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6
>
> and ifconfig show no wpi0
>
> I have not seen this behaviour mentioned before, so could anyone
> give me some hints, please?
>
> mvh
>
> johan
I have been describing related problems in a different thread, but it might
help others if I join this one.
Before I go on, a big mahalo (thanks) to everyone with advice on how to get
my Lucent Gold wifi card working better. Much better now.
My Dell Latitude D830 has a built-in wifi interface which Dennis Melentyev
said might work with the wpi driver. I followed his advice and the
instructions on the wpi man page, but no luck yet.
Here is my entire /boot/loader.conf file, which includes stuff for the
sound card (which does not send output through the built-in speakers, which
is not much of a loss).
sound_load="YES"
snd_hda_load="YES"
# enable ATAPI/CAM driver for CD-ROM
atapicam_load="YES"
# enable wpi wireless driver for Dell internal
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
if_wpi_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_amrr_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
wpifw_load="YES"
Does it matter what sequence these come in?
Here the output of kldstat:
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 19 0xc0400000 926ed4 kernel
2 2 0xc0d27000 4a5ac sound.ko
3 1 0xc0d72000 14324 snd_hda.ko
4 1 0xc0d87000 4d20 atapicam.ko
5 1 0xc0d8c000 f140 if_wpi.ko
6 1 0xc0d9c000 25f60 wpifw.ko
7 1 0xc0dc2000 6a1c4 acpi.ko
8 1 0xc5987000 22000 linux.ko
I noticed some things not listed, wlan, wlan_amrr, and firmware. Just for
fun I tried loading them manually, and got this:
# kldload wlan.ko
kldload: can't load wlan.ko: File exists
The other two, wlan_amrr, and firmware, do the same. I suspect that means
those modules are configured into the kernel. ???
When the system boots I see no sign of activity from wpi0. It does not
appear in /var/run/dmesg.boot or /var/log/messages. Is there a log file for
loader.conf?
The computer has an LED that is on in Windows (it comes on about half way
through the boot sequence), but remains off when I boot into FreeBSD from
power-on. The slider switch on the side of the computer does not switch on
the radio. If I go into Windows, then restart and select FreeBSD, the LED
remains on but with no change, still nothing in the logs or in the output
of ifconfig.
I can load and unload if_wpi without error.
I added this to /etc/rc.conf:
network_interfaces=bge0 wi0 wpi0
to try to force recognition of wpi0 but no change. (bge0 is the built-in
wired Ethernet NIC.)
Any suggestions?
Gary Dunn
Open Slate Project
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