Re: link up/link down on ndis0

On 2004.05.23 14:26:36 +0200, Phil Schulz wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >Did you remember to load the firmware?  The driver won't work before
> >that is done.
> >
> >The ipw(4) driver works for my Centrino WLAN card.
>
> 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

OK, that looks right, then I don't know.  Could be something with the
rest of the kernel.. I run -CURRENT from 20 May on a IBM ThinkPad R40.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team