Re: link up/link down on ndis0

Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

>On 2004.05.23 13:29:54 +0200, Phil Schulz wrote:
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>>For the sake of the archives... I also gave the ipw-driver a try and I 
>>discovered that the laptop doesn't turn on the radio transmitter by 
>>itself. Instead there is a button which, as expected, does not work 
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>Did you remember to load the firmware?  The driver won't work before
>that is done.
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>The ipw(4) driver works for my Centrino WLAN card.
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I followed the steps at [1], so I *think* I did load the firmware. 
Here's what I did:

mars# kldload if_ipw
ipw0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI> mem 0xe0203000-0xe0203fff irq 
10 at device 6.0 on pci2
ipw0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
mars# ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /usr/libdata/if_ipw/ipw2100-1.0.fw
ipw0: Firmware image cached (uc size=8116 bytes, fw size=201050 bytes)
mars# ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.1.251 netmask 0xffffffff up
mars# ifconfig -a
bfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 00:0a:e4:24:43:d6
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
ipw0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.251 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.251
        ether 00:0c:f1:2d:0e:4b
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
        ssid ""
        channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
mars#



References:

[1] http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/install.html