Intel 3945ABG with ipw driver on CURRENT

Tom Evans tevans.uk at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 4 08:16:06 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 16:51 +0200, Mel wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 10:31:38 Tom Evans wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:55 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > > On 10/3/07, Frank Staals <frankstaals at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > Last week I finally received my Dell Latitude D630 which is using the
> > > > Intel 3945ABG chipset for it's wireless connectivity. This should be
> > > > supported with the ipw driver which is available in CURRENT.
> > > > Unfortunately my card is not detected when loading the module.
> > >
> > > If your card is a 3945ABG, then you need the wpi driver, which is not
> > > included (yet, I hope) in FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > Try here:
> > > http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
> > >
> > > Regards.
> >
> > This prompted me to give the wpi driver another go. Both the snapshot
> > 20070923-freebsd-wpi and the version available in perforce fail to load,
> > due to
> >   link_elf: symbol _mtx_assert undefined
> >
> > FreeBSD version is (csup'ed ~1hr before build time)
> > FreeBSD zoot.mintel.co.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct  3
> > 11:47:24 BST 2007     root at zoot.mintel.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOOT
> > i386
> 
> Does ZOOT have WITNESS?
> 
> It loads for me, but locks up machine randomly, sometimes on scan, sometimes 
> on up, sometimes on assigning an IP. It points to the lock set at the end of 
> _init(). Ben knows.

No, I have to use this machine, so most debugging is off. FYI, I've
tried the driver a number of times since I've had the machine (~1 yr),
and the results have been either spectacular lockups, or unable to
attach to the hardware.

Kernel conf is mainly GENERIC:

include         GENERIC
ident           ZOOT
machine         i386
nocpu           I486_CPU
nocpu           I586_CPU

options         SC_PIXEL_MODE
options         SC_HISTORY_SIZE=1000
options         VESA
options         SMP

device          crypto
options         GEOM_ELI

nooptions       INVARIANTS
nooptions       INVARIANT_SUPPORT
nooptions       WITNESS
nooptions       WITNESS_SKIPSCAN
options         ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER

device          atapicam

device          vt
device          drm
device          i915drm

options         NDISAPI
device          ndis

The device ids of the card are:
none0 at pci0:8:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00

This is of minimal importance to me - I have wires everywhere and a ural
usb stick for when I haven't - but if it helps get the driver debugged,
I can try any patchs.

Cheers

Tom
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