[laptop-discuss] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG

[Cecilia.hu]

Hi Rick,

We have Vincent.wang at sun.com and Zhang.xiaodong at sun.com working
on ndis 3945 ABG driver support. They have the early access
binaries for testing. Please contact them to get it.. :-)

-Cecilia

Rick Hedin wrote:
> Good evening.  
> 
> I have been trying to configure my Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG card on
> Solaris Express 10/06, using the ndis wrapper.  
> 
> Earlier, Casper got me over hurdle of trying to put a 32-bit device driver
> into a 64-bit kernel.  I booted a 32-bit Solaris kernel.  
> 
> Everything appears to build, and the modload step appeared to work, but when
> I tried to:  
> 
> 	add_drv -i '"8086,4222"' pcindis
> 
> the system hesitated for a while, and then rebooted itself.  This normally
> is where you quit, and work on something else.  
> 
> I wonder two things:  
> 
> 1)  There are two DLL's that go along with the .SYS file.  Could the problem
> be that the DLL's are not picked up by ndis wrapper?  
> 
> 2)  Now, when I try to add_drv again, I get the message:  
> 
> 	(ipwndis) already in use as a driver or alias.
> 
> Can you tell me how to wipe out ipwndis wherever it is lurking around the
> system?  I don't see a remove_drv command.  
> 
> ------
> 
> For those who like to chew on data, here is some output from prtconf -pv.
> The vendor,device -- 8086,4222 -- appears as a "compatible" device, but not
> as the "name" of the device.  
> 
>             Node 0x00001c
>                 assigned-addresses:
> 82100010.00000000.f4000000.00000000.00001000
>                 reg:
> 00100000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.02100010.00000000.00000000.0000
> 0000.00001000
>                 compatible: 'pciex8086,4222.103c.135b.2' +
> 'pciex8086,4222.103c.135b' + 'pciex8086,4222.2' + 'pciex8086,4222' +
> 'pciexclass,028000' + 'pciexclass,0280' + 'pci8086,4222.103c.135b.2' +
> 'pci8086,4222.103c.135b' + 'pci103c,135b' + 'pci8086,4222.2' +
> 'pci8086,4222' + 'pciclass,028000' + 'pciclass,0280'
>                 model:  'Network controller'
>                 power-consumption:  00000001.00000001
>                 devsel-speed:  00000000
>                 interrupts:  00000001
>                 subsystem-vendor-id:  0000103c
>                 subsystem-id:  0000135b
>                 unit-address:  '0'
>                 class-code:  00028000
>                 revision-id:  00000002
>                 vendor-id:  00008086
>                 device-id:  00004222
>                 pcie-capid-pointer:  000000e0
>                 pcie-capid-reg:  00000011
>                 pci-msi-capid-pointer:  000000d0
>                 name:  'pci103c,135b'
> 
> 
> Thanks for your ideas and insights.  
> 
> 
> 		Regards, 
> 
> 		Rick
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