Cisco mini-PCI cards with the latest firmware

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I'm curious if there are any known issues with the -CURRENT an driver,
and the Cisco Aironet mini-PCI cards running the latest firmware? I
have seen some emails in December, but I wanted to confirm if there was
still an issue on -CURRENT? Thanks.

Joe

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[a***@ambrisko.com]

Joe Marcus Clarke writes:
| I'm curious if there are any known issues with the -CURRENT an driver,
| and the Cisco Aironet mini-PCI cards running the latest firmware? I
| have seen some emails in December, but I wanted to confirm if there was
| still an issue on -CURRENT? Thanks.

If you use older firmware (ie. firmware before they started to use TX Copy)
then it works okay in -CURRENT. In 5.2 there was some #ifdef HACK code
that tried to deal with the TX Copy stuff but it had negative effect on
the older firmware. So it should work okay. Getting the information
I need to fix it still hasn't happened and I haven't got lucky with
my experiemnts :-(

Doug A.

[a***@ambrisko.com]

lars writes:
| Dear all,
|
| My Cisco Aironet MiniPCI card in a Thinkpad R40 doesn't work at all.
| When I boot from the 5.2.1 iso it hangs while detecting the card.
|
| Does this mean it should work now?

It it normal to hang for a little bit. Maybe 10s. Now to make it
work you need an older version of firmware and the driver in -current
or delete the code in /sys/dev/an/if_an.c between the lines that
says "HACK".

What you could do it remove the card from behind one of the doors
on the bottom of your laptop boot and then install FreeBSD including
the sources for sys. Then recompile with the above change. Flash
the firmware via Window. Then it should work.

This assumes that your laptop is okay and not messing up system resources.

Doug A.

[l***@gmx.at]

Post by a***@ambrisko.com
| Dear all,
|
| My Cisco Aironet MiniPCI card in a Thinkpad R40 doesn't work at all.
| When I boot from the 5.2.1 iso it hangs while detecting the card.
|
| Does this mean it should work now?
It it normal to hang for a little bit. Maybe 10s. Now to make it
work you need an older version of firmware and the driver in -current
or delete the code in /sys/dev/an/if_an.c between the lines that
says "HACK".
What you could do it remove the card from behind one of the doors
on the bottom of your laptop boot and then install FreeBSD including
the sources for sys. Then recompile with the above change. Flash
the firmware via Window. Then it should work.
This assumes that your laptop is okay and not messing up system resources.
Doug A.
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Dear Doug,

Following the instructions posted on the net and in this list,
I downgraded my firmware and also the NDIS drivers
(go to cisco.com, dl the firmware and drivers, install with ACU tool,
resp. hardware manager, reboot etc.).

With

set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
set hw.cbb.memory_range="0x20000000"

entered at bootup or written to /boot/loader.conf

my TP R40 now boots 5-2-RELEASE-p2 without lockup.

The card can now be brought up.
I haven't gotten around to testing the card under load yet though,
I will post any results on this list.

Thanks for the help, I almost gave up on FreeBSD on my laptop
after 4.x. Now I'm a happy user again.

Kind regards,
Lars.