Subject: Re: ural device timeout on -current
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/19/2005 18:52:37
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 01:37:25AM +0900, Kouichirou Hiratsuka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:15:56 +0900,
> FUKAUMI Naoki wrote:
> > 
> > At Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:20:41 +0200,
> > dixie wrote:
> > > Hi there, I got a BUFFALO WLI-U2-KG54-AI, rev 2.00/1.15 succesfully 
> > > attached but when I try to assign an address, either manually or via 
> > > dhclient it goes on timeout.
> > > Here's the full dmesg output:
> > <...snip...>
> > > ral0: timeout waiting for BBP/RF to wakeup
> > > 
> > > # ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.1.15
> > > ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: Input/output error
> > > 
> > > I'm on a 3.99.7 macppc machine.
> > > Please to/cc me because I'm not subscribed to this list.
> > > Thank you.
> > 
> > I don't have WLI-U2-KG54-AI. Some devices listed in if_ural.c are not
> > tested. Some devices may not be supported by (u)ral(4).
> > 
> > I'll buy WLI-U2-KG54-AI soon and check it on my machine. 
> > 
> I bought this today.  It has a flash drive in order to install a
> Windows device driver.  The flash drive can be disabled by the
> switch on it.  If the flash drive is off, its device ID is changed
> to 0x0067.  In this state, I can use it with the following patch.

That's pretty neat.  Can you tell us more about it?  Does the flash drive
attach as a umass?  I ask because I am interested in putting NetBSD on
such a wireless keychain adapter.

Dave

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