On 25/05/2010 13:57, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b): >>> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >>> System halted. Remove device and restart. >>> >>> The system boots if I turn off the wireless device in BIOS, but >>> this means I cannot use it. >>> >>> Now, I could just get a BIOS image and exchange the device IDs >>> there. But I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just reactivate the >>> PCIe slot through the OS? >> >> This e-mail is written through the ath wireless I got: >> >> # ifconfig >> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 >> ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g >> status: associated >> ... >> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 >> ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f >> inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255 >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g >> status: associated >> ssid "Obi-Wan Kenobi" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid 00:15:0c:d5:37:a0 >> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON >> deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 >> bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 >> protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL >> >> I achieved this by passing the BIOS check with the intel wireless and >> hot-swapping it with the atheros card afterwards. This is impractical >> and evil, so I'm still searching for a solution. >> >> But at least I know that the device works. > > HP laptops really dislike the fact that your card isn't part of the Centrino > brand, so they halt if they find an Atheros. Your best option is to change > the Atheros card EEPROM to match the device and vendor id of your wpi card. > Then you also need to change the ath driver to attach to that device id. > > It's evil, but it's better than hot-swapping.
Yes, but it still sucks. And I actually have no idea how to flash the ath device. All the instructions on this I have found use Linux. I'd prefer to flash the notebook BIOS, but I have no way to defeat its evil compression. > The other option is to buy a iwn card which works better in FreeBSD than wpi. Nay, this is my goodbye to Intel brand wireless. I always thought wpa_supplicant was to blame for unreliable connections, but it all just works with the Atheros hardware. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
