Re: Compaq WL200 wireless card trouble
Willie Viljoen <[email protected]>
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I might be completely off the mark, but are you running a 4.6-STABLE or a 4.7-STABLE? This, as far as I can remember, was a bug which was fixed shortly after 4.7-STABLE was branched. Will On Friday 21 February 2003 22:24, Wilko Bulte wrote: > I hope someone can shed some light on the following: > > I have an Abit BP6 running -stable, equipped with a Compaq WL200 > wireless card. This is a PCI card with a PCMCIA-PCI bridge and a PRISM2 > chipset. As in: > > pcic0: <Cirrus Logic PD6729/6730 PCI-PCMCIA Bridge> port 0xcc00-0xcc03 > irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 > pcic0: Polling mode > pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0 > pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0 > ... > wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0 > wi0: 802.11 address: 00:50:8b:d0:6a:ba > wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163-SST-flash > wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 1.03.04 > > The problem I see is: > wi0: watchdog timeout > wi0: watchdog timeout > wi0: watchdog timeout > wi0: watchdog timeout > > I've also seen: > > Feb 21 02:31:52 smp /kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 144/3c; last > status 403c > > Tried moving the card around into other PCI slots but that did not help. > > One can get it to associate: > > wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.5.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0 > ether 00:50:8b:d0:6a:ba > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: associated > ssid wbw 1:"" > stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" > channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 > wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 > > The card (urkk....) works ok with Win98 so the hardware is basically OK > I would think. > > Questions: > - any idea why these watchdog timeouts occur? > - is the firmware the WL200 currently runs a sensible one for PRISM2? > (it has 0.8.0 which is not OK for host ap mode which is the ultimate > goal here) > > tnx > Wilko -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [email protected] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message