WiFi card on Thinkpad G40

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Apr 14 08:50:54 PDT 2005


I have an IBM Thinkpad G40, which runs FreeBSD wonderfully, except for
one thing: The WiFi.

I found this entry that claims the WiFi card works, but I'm not having
the same experience:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=343

(Actually, other things are different as well, ACPI works perfectly as far
as I can tell)

Anyway, I'm looking for any advice.  Originally using 5.3-RELEASE, and now
5.3-p8.  I switched back to a GENERIC kernel to see if that helped, but
I see nothing in dmesg that would indicate that the WiFi is even detected.

uname:
FreeBSD laptop.potentialtech.com 5.3-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p8 #2: Tue Apr 12 06:49:17 EDT 2005     root at laptop.potentialtech.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  i386


dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p8 #2: Tue Apr 12 06:49:17 EDT 2005
    root at laptop.potentialtech.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2987.90-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 527368192 (502 MB)
avail memory = 510582784 (486 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <IBM TP-1T> on motherboard
acpi_ec_ecdt_probe: can't get handle
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1d> port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (2 Cx states)> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
agp0: <Intel 8285xM (85xGM GMCH) SVGA controller> port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xd0000000-0xd007ffff,0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M
pci0: <display> at device 2.1 (no driver attached)
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1860-0x187f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5901 Fast Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3001> mem 0xd0200000-0xd020ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5705 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDXauto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:06:1b:c6:30:12
cbb0: <TI1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 2.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1810-0x181f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x3bc-0x3be irq 7 on acpi0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xeffff,0xdc000-0xdffff,0xcc800-0xcdfff,0xc0000-0xcc7ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250 or not responding
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2987895894 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 4 steps (100% to 25.0%), currently 100.0%
ad0: 54354MB <IC25N060ATMR04-0/MO3OAD4A> [110434/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDRW <DW-224E/B.2A> at ata1-master UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a


-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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