On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:48:13AM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote: > I'm having some problems with wi in 5-CURRENT and 5.1 in general. > I'm using a Proxim Skyline 802.11b PC Card (which I believe uses the > Prism 2 chipset). The PC Card is using the 0.3.0 primary and 0.8.3 > secondary firmware (which I believe is the latest). I have a Dell > Inspiron 8200. > > The card works fine in Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.0, but in 5.1 if I use > ifconfig to bring up the card (for example during boot) it locks my > laptop up for about a minute while I get loads of error messages appear > on screen. Eventually I get a 'init failed' and 'tx buffer allocation > failed (error 12)' error, and although ifconfig says the interface is up > it doesn't actually work.
See if there isn't updated firmware for your card. Rumor has it the MS-Windows driver uploads the latest firmware version into the RAM on the card. For Lucent cards you want any versoin 8 firmware from http://www.expressresponse.com/cgi-bin/proxim02/showFaq.cgi?session_id=1055265419.6837.7&type=&product=Client_Product _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
