Cardbus problem
Patrick Bowen
pbowen at fastmail.fm
Wed Aug 23 21:20:19 UTC 2006
Adrian Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had a problem using the ndis driver for my wireless cardbus
> adapter since I updated current in April.
>
> The wireless card is an Alloy WLT245401 model with a Texas Instruments
> chipset.
>
> With a current from November 2005, I used the wireless adapter
> successfully.
>
> I updated current yesterday and still no joy:
> FreeBSD priscilla.gsoft.com.au 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #7: Wed
> Aug 23 08:34:10 CST 2006
> root at priscilla.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRISCILLA i386
>
>
> When I insert the wireless card, I see the following in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0x1c02
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: cardbus0: CIS in BAR 0x14
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: cardbus0: Expecting link target, got
> 0x8
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: cardbus0: Warning: Bogus CIS ignored
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: ndis0: <IEEE 802.11g Wireless
> Cardbus/PCI Adapter> mem 0xf2020000-0xf203ffff,0xf2002000-0xf2003fff
> at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: ndis0: init handler failed
> Aug 21 18:29:53 priscilla kernel: device_attach: ndis0 attach returned 6
>
>
> pciconf says:
> cbb0 at pci2:15:0: class=0x060700 card=0x00a41028 chip=0xac42104c
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x02
> vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
> device = 'PCI4451 PC card CardBus Controller'
> class = bridge
> subclass = PCI-CardBus
> cbb1 at pci2:15:1: class=0x060700 card=0x00a41028 chip=0xac42104c
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x02
> vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
> device = 'PCI4451 PC card CardBus Controller'
> class = bridge
> subclass = PCI-CardBus
> ndis0 at pci5:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x9067104c chip=0x9066104c
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
> device = 'TNETW1130(ACX111) 802.11b/g Wireless Cardbus/PCI Adapter'
> class = network
>
> I wound back the versions of the cardbus module. The wireless card
> worked again when I made a cardbus module dated < December 29, 2005.
> If I advance further than that I get the problem above.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem?
>
> Regards, Adrian
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Adrian;
There were some changes made by imp@ to cardbus.h around the turn of the
year that were subsequently backed out of -stable, but left in -current.
You can read the details at cvsweb.freebsd.org. Perhaps this is what
you're seeing.
Regards,
Patrick
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