Re: Problem in wpi firmware

From: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close_at_clearchain.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:46:53 +1030
Rene Ladan wrote:
> 2007/11/19, LINGAM RAVI KIRAN <l_ravikiran_2000_at_yahoo.com>:
>   
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> I am trying to get wifi in hp nc6400 laptop, i have Intel 3945ABG NIC card, i installed wpi package, but there is some problem in firmware or some silly mistake i am doing, which i could not figure out. My system configuration is:
>>
>> Intel 3945ABG NIC card
>> FreeBSD 8.0 current
>>
>> Problem is :
>>
>> bad dmamem_alloc_memory
>>
>> and after that
>>
>> firmware wpifw could not load.
>>
>>     
> Since you're running CURRENT, you could try the version included in
> the cvs source (remove the manually downloaded version first).  The
> cvs version should work (my wpi card still fails with an error 17 upon
> association).  It also includes the firmware image.
>
> Expect some harmless messages about misaligned memory when loading the driver.
>
> HTH,
> Rene
>   
The misaligned memory messages should disappear with a patch I'll be 
putting in p4 tonight. As to the association issue can you please try 
the version in p4 and see if it fixes your problem?

Cheers,
    Benjamin
Received on Mon Nov 19 2007 - 23:17:54 UTC

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