Intel 4965AGN with ndis

Mormegil

Mormegil

I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on an Asus F3sv laptop. After lots of fruitless searching, I've about given up on getting a native driver (Intel 4965AGN) running so I installed a kernel module using ndis and a Windows driver. No success here, either.

Ifconfig shows 'no carrier', and I'm not able to connect to the network. Running ifconfig ndis0 scan actually does successfully detect a number of available wireless networks, so there is clearly wireless connectivity going on. Dmesg reveals an error when loading the module. What do you say? Do I go buy a known-working card, or is there hope at getting this working?

The output from dmesg:

Code: 
ndis0: <Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN> mem 0xfe1fe000-0xfe1fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
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:e8:35:51:d9
ndis0: NDIS ERROR: 40001b7c (unknown error)
ndis0: NDIS ERROR: 6000138d (unknown error)

ifconfig shows

Code: 
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:13:e8:35:51:d9
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/18Mbps)
        [b]status: no carrier[/b]
        ssid Ea channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:18:f8:aa:e8:bd
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS
 
I've seen quite a few people try and fail to get a 4965AGN working with NDIS. I really recommend taking the leap to FreeBSD 8.0. Beta1 has been very stable for me, native 4965AGN support is builtin, and it has many other improvements!
 
Thanks for your reply. I'd been hesitant to upgrade to 8.0 but I think I may as well just go for it. It's only a personal machine and I really don't want to put anything other than FreeBSD on it.
 
I also tried and was unsuccessful to get the 4965 working with NDIS.

I now have OpenBSD on my laptop and iwn works pretty good, since FreeBSD iwn is a port of the OpenBSD driver I would expect it also works OK.

Only downside is that 802.11n isn't supported ... Only 802.11g ...
 
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