Getting wpi to work

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On 5/9/07, Nuno Antunes <nuno.antunes at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Hi,

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.
I would like to see ppl with the hardware and time to work on a new
driver for 3945 instead of struggling with the any porting of wpi
(including netbsd's and freebsd's).  It does not work very well ever
since it borned in OpenBSD, you can read various complains about it on
their mail list yourself.
Intel's new 3945 project should have provided a good reference driver:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/
But you still need to read the reference driver, which mainly depends
on how much time you can spend on it and will not be difficult.
If you want to start the new driver, please feel free to contact me if
you need help (except for testing the driver, I don't have the
hardware)
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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