Dell 1450 usb wireless card w/ FreeBSD 6.0

[Eric Anderson]

Matthew David Parker wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get a 1450 Dell wireless usb card working here in FreeBSD
>6.0.  I opened up the card casing and the chips inside say "conexant", and
>it's some sort of prism2.
>
>I couldn't find any drivers to use that were native to freeBSD so I tried
>to do the NDISulator.  I did ndisgen on my inf and sys files and it seemed
>to work perfectly, generating a file named PRISMA02_sys.ko, which I put
>into /boot/kernel.
>
>So I plugged the card into the USB slot and here is the dmesg:
>
>ugen0: DELL Dell Wireless 1450 Dual-band (802.11a/b/g) USB 2.0 Adapter,
>rev 2.00/10.50, addr 2
>
>Then I did:
>kldload ndis
>
>which loaded if_ndis as well:
>kldstat:
> 4    2 0xc0e0b000 c960     if_ndis.ko
> 5    3 0xc0e18000 173c4    ndis.ko
>
>Then I did:
>kldload PRISMA02_sys.ko
>
>It loads the module but doesn't say anything, no errors, nothing.
>
>kldstat has this new line:
> 7    1 0xc243f000 59000    PRISMA02_sys.ko
>
>The little lights on my wireless card don't turn on, and there is
>absoletely nothing new added to dmesg, nor is there any new device added
>when I do "ifconfig".
>
>Am I missing something here?  Do I have to compile the module specifically
>for USB?  Do I have to manually create a device in /dev ?
>  
>

You may try unplugging it, kldunloading ugen, then plugging it back in.  
If you have ugen compiled into your kernel, I suppose you could edit 
devd.conf to not act on the adapter.

Eric





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