Getting wpi to work

Nuno Antunes nuno.antunes at gmail.com
Tue May 8 14:12:52 PDT 2007


Hello,

I'm trying to get the wpi wireless nic on my laptop to work.

I downloaded http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/wpi.tbz and
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/wpicontrol.tbz, hooked them to the
build and they compiled and installed fine.
After kldloading the module, the card was correctly detected but when
I loaded the firmware with wpicontrol and tried to ifconfig up the
interface, the following messages were generated.
May  8 19:48:20 class kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xd21000
00-0xd2100fff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci5
May  8 19:48:20 class kernel: wpi0: MAC address: 00:18:de:25:5a:fb
May  8 19:49:08 class kernel: wpi0: boot 0x28151050 384
May  8 19:49:08 class kernel: wpi0: text 0x28136010 13040
May  8 19:49:08 class kernel: wpi0: data 0x28149050 8000
May  8 19:49:34 class kernel: firmware status=0xbfbf0000 need val=0x40400000
May  8 19:49:34 class last message repeated 2 times
May  8 19:49:34 class kernel: firmware status=0xffff0000 need val=0x40400000
May  8 19:49:34 class kernel: firmware status=0xbfbf0000 need val=0x40400000
May  8 19:49:34 class kernel: firmware status=0xbfbf0000 need val=0x40400000
May  8 19:49:34 class kernel: firmware status=0xffff0000 need val=0x40400000
May  8 19:49:34 class kernel: wpi0: fatal firmware error
May  8 19:49:35 class kernel: wpi0: could not set txpower
May  8 19:49:35 class kernel: wpi0: could not configure device
I'm willing to get my hands durty on the code, but I'm afraid I just
don't understand enough of it. I will gladly test any patches, though.
Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks,
Nuno




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