Re: Lasted NDIS wrapper for D-Link DWL-520+ on RELENG_6

Hi Bill,

Thank you for your cynical reply, my face is always showing a smile
whenever I can read your words :-).

> Ok, there's something I just have to know: what the hell did you mean
> in the Subject: line when you said "Lasted?"

Hmm well, as you have surely already understood, English is not my
native tongue.  My mind wished to write "Lastest" but my fingers typed
"Lasted" and my eyes didn't notice it.

> I think you picked the wrong driver.
> 
> Your device's PCI vendor/device/subsystem ID says:
>  
> > % none0_at_pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x3b041186 chip=0x9066104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > %     vendor   = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
> > %     device   = 'TNETW1130(ACX111) 802.11b/g Wireless Cardbus/PCI Adapter'
> > %     class    = network
> 
> And you said you used the driver from:
>  
> > I'm trying to use the lastest driver for this card provided by D-Link :
> >     ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Wireless/dwl520+/Driver/dwl520+_drivers_307.zip
> 
> Now, The first thing you should have done is to actually inspect the
> .INF file. Like the self-documenting ndisgen(8) script tells you, this
> is the file that actually contains the device ID information that the
> Windows Plug & Play Mangler will use when trying to match a device
> to a driver. The AIRPLUS.INF file says:
> 
> [D-Link]
> %AIRPLUS.DeviceDesc1% = AIRPLUS.8400, PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8400&SUBSYS_3B001186
> %AIRPLUS.DeviceDesc2% = AIRPLUS.8400, PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8400&SUBSYS_3B011186
> 
> Note that the PCI vendor ID (0x104c) matches your device, but the
> device ID (0x8400) does not (yours is 0x9066).
> 
> In this case, the .INF file tells Windows to look for two possible
> devices. In reality, both devices use the same chip (vendor 0x104c,
> device 0x8400), but there are two board variants (one with 0x3b001186,
> the other 0x3b011186). The subsystem ID is really another vendor/device
> ID combination (0x1186 is D-Link's vendor ID, 0x3b00 and 0x3b01 are
> the device codes D-Link has assigned to their boards). Exactly what
> the differences are between the board revs is anyone's guess. Maybe
> they use the same Texas Instruments chip, but with slightly different
> RF circuitry. Maybe they're really the same electronically, but D-Link
> decided to give each production run their own ID code because they're
> funny that way.
> 
> In any case, not only do the vendor ID and device ID not match your board,
> the subsystem IDs don't match yours either (0x3b041186). So this driver
> is not the one that goes with your card.

Ok thank you very much for this explanation, this is now very clear.
I'm going to try other drivers, I think looking on Google for these
vendor and device IDs will point out a relevant driver.  At first
glance it seems that NetGear WG-311 uses the same chip, I'm going to
have a try to their driver.

> > I have to say that I'm quite puzzled by the fact that there seem to be
> > multiple versions of the DWL-520+ card (at least two, one with an Atheros
> > chipset and one with a T.I. chipset) but strangely there is only one driver.
> > Even stranger, the Drivers/WinXP/ directory contains only one .SYS file.
> > I guess there must be some magic in it.
> 
> Oh, _you're_ puzzled that there's multiple versions of the same card.
> Welcome to _my_ world, buster.
> 
> I want you to explain, in precise detail, why you're trying to download
> a driver instead of using the one on the CD that came with the card. If
> the reason is that you lost the CD, then you're being appropriately
> punished for your carelessness.

You read my mind.  I hope God will forgive me before I have to leave
the purgatory :).

> It's entirely possible that D-Link hasn't put the driver for your card
> on their FTP server yet.
> 
> "So what do I do now?" I hear you ask.
> 
> You look on other vendors' sites for other cards based on the on
> the Texas Instruments chipset and check their .INF files until you
> find one where the vendor and device ID matches yours. And you remind
> yourself to keep better track of your driver CDs in the future.

Noted.  Excuse me for wasting your time because I lost the CD.

I will follow up this thread when I will have got my card running
with NDIS, for the records.

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >