Help with Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (on Dell)

[bforest]

Hello All,

Thanks in advance for any assistance you may provide.

I have not had experience getting PCBSD to recognize the Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN on dell laptops. I know that it will not recognize the NIC at all without help.

My current system is: PCBSD v7.1.1

I followed the instruction in FreeBSD handbook for using NDIS drivers and did not receive any errors. One issue here though...

Command# ndisgen ./NETw4x32.INF ./NETw4x32.sys

It asked:

================================================== ================
------------------ Windows(r) driver converter -------------------
================================================== ================

Firmware file conversion

If your driver uses additional firmware files, please list them
below. When you're finished, just press enter to continue. (If your
driver doesn't need any extra firmware files, just press enter
to move to the next step.)

>

and I have NO IDEA how to know if there are other firmware files that I needed to referenced here.

In any case It completed ok so I ran the "kldload" command on the *.ko file it created. No errors here either.

Here is what I found at end of dmesg:

. . .
ndis0: <Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN> mem 0xfe8fe000-0xfe8fffff irq 17
at device 0.0 on pci12
ndis0: [ITHREAD]
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
ndis0: NDIS ERROR: 40001b7c (unknown error)
ndis0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:13:e8:xx:xx:xx
(END)

(The MAC address is the correct one) You notice there is an NDIS ERROR listed.

This is as far as I have gone..

Any idea how to get rid of this NDIS ERROR

[TzunTzai]

Quite a few people have been having some issues with Intel's new Wifi Link series in FreeBSD. You may want to look into the "iwn" driver from 8.0-BETA3. I think the 4965 is now working with that driver. I'm still trying to get my 5100 AGN to work with iwn or ndisgen.

[bforest]

Here are the files from the Windows NIC installation directory.

I only used the two marked with: "*"

Directory of C:\drivers\Network\R150906

09/04/2009 06:26 PM <DIR> .
09/04/2009 06:26 PM <DIR> ..
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 521,128 DPInst32.EXE
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 845,736 DPInst64.exe
06/13/2007 02:13 AM 19,944 INFCACHE.1
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 643,072 iProdifx.dll
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 229,440 iProdifx.EXE
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 557,056 NETw2c32.DLL
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 2,732,032 NETw2r32.DLL
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 679,936 NETw4c32.DLL
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 730,112 NETw4c64.DLL
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 23,534 NETw4k32.CAT
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 157,315 NETw4k32.INF
06/13/2007 02:13 AM 137,636 NETw4k32.PNF
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 2,198,272 NETw4k32.sys
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 2,756,608 NETw4r32.DLL
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 2,655,744 NETw4r64.DLL
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 23,534 NETw4x32.CAT
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 157,609 NETw4x32.INF *
06/13/2007 02:13 AM 141,716 NETw4x32.PNF
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 2,203,520 NETw4x32.sys *
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 23,582 NETw4x64.CAT
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 159,193 NETw4x64.INF
06/13/2007 02:13 AM 143,396 NETw4x64.PNF
03/12/2007 09:59 PM 3,090,432 NETw4x64.sys
03/12/2007 10:00 PM 2,205,696 w29n50.sys
03/12/2007 10:00 PM 17,675 w29n51.cat
03/12/2007 10:00 PM 119,850 w29n51.inf
06/13/2007 02:13 AM 109,320 w29n51.PNF
03/12/2007 10:00 PM 2,209,408 w29n51.sys
28 File(s) 25,492,496 bytes

Thanks for the info. Glad to know native drivers will be in
next version possibly.