ndis0 does not associate since update to RELENG_6

[Fabian Keil]

Parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:

> in message <20060117152716.6e9ec40d at localhost>,
> wrote Fabian Keil thusly...
> >
> > Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > I fail to get the following device working since my update
> > > from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 a few days ago:
> > > 
> > > ndis0 at pci2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x27128086 chip=0x42208086
> > > rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
> > >     device   = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'
> > >     class    = network
> > 
> > I found a work around. It still works
> > with /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware/:
> 
> I also found the same about ndis driver.  I was not even able to
> assign a ssid, mode, or a channel to a ndis0 interface.
> 
> At least net/iwi-firmware works w/ WPA (even if the interface causes
> freeze after waking up from long sleep on IBM Thinkpad T42;

Did you try to load and unload if_iwi.ko in /etc/rc.resume and
/etc/rc.suspend?
 
> BTW, when i read that you "found a work around", i was expecting a
> work around to make ndis work.

I'm sorry for my misleading wording then. Of course it's just a
work around to get the PRO/Wireless 2200BG working at all.

It's just that I had forgotten about the existence of iwi.
The last days I was using em0 to connect my Laptop to the
network. Getting if_iwi to work after my initial posting
was a relief.

Fabian
-- 
http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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