Hello!
I've a problem with NDIS and a 'PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter
(3890)'
because if I do an 'ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168...' I must wait about
!!!5 MINUTES!!! for the finish of ifconfig...
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My System: Medion MD41300 Notebook with P4 3.06GHz HT CPU
Windows driver for the WLAN chip:
http://www1.medion.de/downloads/download.pl?id=1870&type=treiber&filename=wlanwid2010win2kxp.exe&lang=de
pciconf -lv
ndis0@pci3:6:0: class=0x028000 card=0x001417cf chip=0x38901260 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor)'
device = 'ISL3890 PRISM GT 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Controller'
class = network
FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Mar 12 23:36:01 CET 2006
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That's what I've done:
- I've built a kernel with SMP support, NDISAPI etc. (for details see the
following config):
http://net.razik.de/temp/RAZIK2006-03-12-6
- I've built a kernel module with 'ndisgen PRISMA00.inf
PRISMA00.sys' - its name is: 'PRISMA00_sys.ko'
- In my rc.conf I have the following line:
ifconfig_ndis0="inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid razik.de
wepmode mixed wepkey 1:0xABCDEF... deftxkey 1"
(It doesn't matter if I use WEP or not...)
It's not possible to load the PRISMA00_sys.ko module at startup (because of
an error), so my current loader.conf is:
kernel="kernel.6.0-STABLE"
snd_ich_load="YES"
linux_load="YES"
nvidia_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
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After system startup I load the module manually by typing 'kldload
PRISMA00_sys' and I get:
ndis0: <PRISM 802.11g Wireless Adapter (3890)> mem 0xd2004000-0xd2005fff
irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci3
can't re-use a leaf (BusType)!
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
And about 40 seconds later i get
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b3:9d:46:dc
After loading the module I can see (by typing 'ps ax') that ifconfig is
automatically started (? by /etc/pccard_ether ?)
and tries to configure the ndis0 device like it is written in the rc.conf. That
takes about 5 minutes!!!
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If I delete the config line for the ndis0 device in my rc.conf and kldload the
PRISMA00_sys module
and ifconfig ndis0 manually it also takes about 5 minutes...
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And it doesn't matter if I set 'machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1' or
not.
After the 5 minutes (if the system doesn't crash) I get this from
'ifconfig ndis0':
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::260:b3ff:fe9d:46dc%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:60:b3:9d:46:dc
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: associated
ssid razik.de channel 9 bssid 00:13:10:27:e4:c8
authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100
protmode CTS
And normally I can use the WLAN chip without problems then...
Does anyone have an idea why ifconfig needs so long to setup the device?
Regards,
Lukas