Status of wi(4)

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 8 08:26:41 PST 2003


Some time ago, I've seen some traffic about problems with wi(4). I've
been on holiday for most of November, just to find my fine working
Netgear MA401 no longer functional on 5.2-RC. AFAIKS initialization
fails (see below). Are there still known oustanding issues with wi ?

-erwin

wi0: <NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11
function 0 config 1 on pccard0
wi0: 801.11 address: 00:30:ab:11:69:a5
wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (0.3.0), Station (0.8.3)
wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0002; event status 0x0008
wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0000; event status 0x0008
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: init failed
wi0: failed to allocate 2372 bytes on NIC
wi0: tx buffer allocation failed (error 12)
wi0: interface not running

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