problem with ndis

[Guido van Rooij]

Today, my wireless link had some prolems. I wasn't doing anything
particular at that moment.

I got the following in my logfile:
Feb 16 13:25:59 beck kernel: ndis0: watchdog timeout
Feb 16 13:26:01 beck kernel: ndis0: failed to get bssid
Feb 16 13:26:01 beck kernel: ndis0: link down
Feb 16 13:26:34 beck kernel: ndis0: link up
Feb 16 14:39:39 beck kernel: ndis0: watchdog timeout
Feb 16 14:39:42 beck kernel: ndis0: failed to get bssid
Feb 16 14:39:42 beck kernel: ndis0: link down
Feb 16 14:40:09 beck kernel: ndis0: link up
Feb 16 14:45:42 beck kernel: ndis0: failed to get bssid
Feb 16 14:45:42 beck kernel: ndis0: link down
Feb 16 14:45:48 beck kernel: ndis0: link up

After each link down event, I had to manually reconfigure tha card.

The card is:
ndis0 at pci2:3:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00011028 chip=0x432014e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM4306(??) 802.11g Wireless NIC'
    class    = network
Feb 16 08:46:48 beck kernel: ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0xfafee000-0xfafeffff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci2
Feb 16 08:46:48 beck kernel: ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
Feb 16 08:46:48 beck kernel: ndis0: 802.11 address: 00:90:4b:1f:b4:2b
Feb 16 08:46:48 beck kernel: ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
Feb 16 08:46:48 beck kernel: ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

I'm running a FreeBSD 5 that is a couple of weeks old:
ot/kernel] guido at beck> ident ndis.ko 
ndis.ko:
     $FreeBSD: src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_pe.c,v 1.7 2004/01/13 22:49:45 obrien Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ndis.c,v 1.41 2004/02/03 07:39:23 wpaul Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_hal.c,v 1.7 2004/01/15 19:34:56 obrien Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c,v 1.19 2004/01/19 19:57:00 wpaul Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/sys/compat/ndis/kern_ndis.c,v 1.35 2004/02/03 07:39:23 wpaul Exp $
[/boot/kernel] guido at beck> ident if_n
if_ndis.ko* if_nge.ko*  
[/boot/kernel] guido at beck> ident if_ndis.ko 
if_ndis.ko:
     $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c,v 1.40 2004/02/03 07:39:23 wpaul Exp $



-Guido