Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS
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=8843UP,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=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xff00 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
Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS
On 26 May 2010, at 07:55, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de wrote: 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=8843UP,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=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xff00 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. Please ask s...@freebsd.org about that. I'd prefer to flash the notebook BIOS, but I have no way to defeat its evil compression. I think flashing the bios is more risky than fixing the EEPROM. 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. Intel has made progress and I really think that they are on the right track to produce good cards. -- 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? Use the link below to report this message as spam. https://lavabit.com/apps/teacher?sig=1117002key=1739816679 ___ 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
Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS
On 26/05/2010 22:52, Rui Paulo wrote: On 26 May 2010, at 07:55, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de wrote: 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=8843UP,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=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xff00 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. Please ask s...@freebsd.org about that. I'd prefer to flash the notebook BIOS, but I have no way to defeat its evil compression. I think flashing the bios is more risky than fixing the EEPROM. Yes, it's a philosophical thing. By flashing the BIOS I address the error. By changing the wireles EEPROM I counter the error with another error. 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. Intel has made progress and I really think that they are on the right track to produce good cards. While wpi is the first one in my care that does not work at all, all other Intel brand wireless devices in my use have proven to be at least unreliable. So what if they work reliable one day. The Atheros I got is reliable, now! Not in a far fetched future that might never actually come to be. -- 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
Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS
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=8843UP,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=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xff00 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. The other option is to buy a iwn card which works better in FreeBSD than wpi. Regards, -- Rui Paulo ___ 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
Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS
My wpi wireless never was reliable, but since I upgraded to 8gb RAM it doesn't do anything (if I'm lucky) or panic my system. So, after some discussion on STABLE I followed the recommendation to get an Atheros card for 10$ on ebay. 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? -- 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
Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS
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=8843UP,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=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xff00 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. -- 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
