Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Centrino wlan driver loading

[Pontus F. <pon...@ta...>]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 13:17, Stefan D=C3=B6singer wrote:
> Hello,
> I managed to load the driver for the Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B=
 Mini=20
> PCI Adapter (rev 04), the wireless card built into every centrino laptop.

Great news Stefan!

> The driver loads, the Network device registered. The Mac address is corre=
ct,=20
> iwconfig can read out some information too. There are still a lot of=20
> unimplemented functions(See the attached console log). When WEP is=20
> disabled(in the access point configuration) the card connects without the=
=20
> need to set special parameters. When trying to send anything(I started th=
e=20
> dhcp client) a kernel panic occurs(It looks like a very hard crash, the=20
> system is just dead, it doesn't print any information, just the capslock =
led=20
> is flashing).
> When I unload the module(I activated WEP again, so the wlan card did not=20
> connect) the driver crashes too(see the log). This is due to an unimpleme=
nted=20
> function, maybe returning NDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS is enough to prevent this.
>=20
> Have attached diffs for various files and two new files, ndisevent.c and=20
> ndisevent.h. Don't forget to add ndisevent.o to the Makefile's list of=20
> objects to compile.
>=20
> Please note the patch for ndis.c: I included a line len=3D4096 in=20
> NdisMMapIoSpace. The len is 0 normally, and until the bug is fixed it's s=
till=20
> neccessary to force len=3D4096. A emergency solution would be to check th=
e PCI=20
> vendor and device, and if len =3D=3D 0, pci_venor=3D=3D8086[intel] and=20
> pci_device=3D=3D1043[PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter] then len =
is set=20
> to 4096.

I see previous mail.

> Cheers,
> Stefan D=C3=B6singer
> (Hope I attached all my changed files)

Yes. You even manged to hit the sourceforge 40 K limit :)

What I'll do now is merge all the stuff I like. Maybe I'll reject some
but I have not really looked at it and I have other things to do now :(

/Pontus