These two devices I'm still having a spot of trouble with. The first one is the card reader. I really didn't expect this one to be easy but perhaps someone could shed some light. We have two Acer Aspire 3680s but I'm only concerned with this one for the moment, as the other one runs Windows XP. This is a Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller, according to Windows. I assume that this is the portion of dmesg that is relevant.
So...is there a driver for this, or is it possible to use the Windows driver here as it is sometimes for other devices?
And then is the wireless device. This was hard enough to get working in Windows (it worked once on mine); on the other Acer, we've never been able to get the wireless working despite trying many drivers (since there are four different possible devices!). FreeBSD identifies this particular one as the Broadcom model. Here's the relevant dmesg output for the bwi driver:
According to another thread here on the forum, there are some additional steps to take to get wifi working, which I added as well. However, I still have no idea how to make it work. The device shows up KDE's "Network Tools" dialog but shows as "inactive".
Code:
cbb0: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xd0204000-0xd0204fff irq 20 at device 9.0 on pci10
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
cbb0: [ITHREAD]
pci10: <mass storage> at device 9.2 (no driver attached)
So...is there a driver for this, or is it possible to use the Windows driver here as it is sometimes for other devices?
And then is the wireless device. This was hard enough to get working in Windows (it worked once on mine); on the other Acer, we've never been able to get the wireless working despite trying many drivers (since there are four different possible devices!). FreeBSD identifies this particular one as the Broadcom model. Here's the relevant dmesg output for the bwi driver:
Code:
bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4311 802.11 Wireless Lan> mem 0xd0100000-0xd0103fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
bwi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
bwi0: [ITHREAD]
bwi0: regwin: chipcommon (0x800), rev 17, vendor 0x4243
bwi0: BBP: id 0x4311, rev 0x1, pkg 0
bwi0: nregwin 4, cap 0x0064000d
bwi0: regwin: 802.11 MAC (0x812), rev 10, vendor 0x4243
bwi0: MAC: rev 10
bwi0: regwin: usb 1.1 host (0x817), rev 3, vendor 0x4243
bwi0: regwin: pci express (0x820), rev 1, vendor 0x4243
bwi0: clksrc CS_OSC
bwi0: clkfreq min 990000, max 1010000
bwi0: power on delay 3
bwi0: bus rev 1
bwi0: pci express is enabled
bwi0: card flags 0x4a49
bwi0: 0th led, act 2, lowact 0
bwi0: 1th led, act 5, lowact 0
bwi0: 2th led, act 4, lowact 0
bwi0: 3th led, act 0, lowact 0
bwi0: 802.11 MAC was already disabled
bwi0: PHY is linked
bwi0: PHY: type 2, rev 8, ver 4
bwi0: PHY: 802.11G attach
bwi0: RF: manu 0x17f, type 0x2050, rev 2
bwi0: bus rev 1
bwi0: PHY is linked
bwi0: 32bit bus space
bwi0: max txpower from sprom: 74 dBm
bwi0: invalid antenna gain in sprom
bwi0: ant gain 8 dBm
bwi0: region/domain max txpower 76 dBm
bwi0: max txpower 74 dBm
bwi0: sprom idle tssi: 0xff3e
bwi0: TSSI-TX power map:
85 85 84 84 84 83 83 83
82 82 81 81 80 80 79 79
78 78 77 77 77 76 76 74
74 73 73 72 71 70 70 69
68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61
60 59 57 56 54 53 51 50
48 46 44 42 39 37 35 32
30 26 23 19 15 11 6 1
bwi0: idle tssi0: 62
bwi0: bus rev 1
bwi0: locale: 0
bwi0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
bwi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:7e:5e:8c:a3
According to another thread here on the forum, there are some additional steps to take to get wifi working, which I added as well. However, I still have no idea how to make it work. The device shows up KDE's "Network Tools" dialog but shows as "inactive".