Subject: adding a wireless networking PCI card to the Qube?
To: None <port-cobalt@mail.netbsd.org>
From: Kevin Lahey <kml@patheticgeek.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 05/01/2002 09:22:58
I'm having some odd troubles adding a PCI card to my Qube2.  The box
just doesn't seem to recognize the card at all.  I don't see any sort
of message about it in dmesg, no "unconfigured card" message, and 
certainly not any happy configuration messages.  I'm running 
NetBSD-current as of about a week ago.

The card is a D-Link DWL-520 wireless PCI card -- basicly, it is a
mini-PCI card slapped onto a PCI card.  It works fine on my i386
box, which is running the same -current code.  It is recognized
as follows:

	wi0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: Intersil Prism2.5 Wireless Lan
	wi0: interrupting at irq 10
	wi0: 802.11 address 00:05:5d:ed:b8:0c
	wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
	wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.5), Station (1.3.4)

Alas, I see no such message from my faithful Qube2.  I've seen messages
from folks who've successfully installed PCI cards on Qubes, so I just
have to wonder if I'm missing a secret handshake?  Is there some sort
of jumper I didn't notice?  I've already checked the seating of the
card twice, so hopefully that's not the issue.

Thanks,

Kevin
kml@patheticgeek.net

Here's the dmesg:

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NetBSD 1.5ZC (FUGU) #0: Wed May  1 00:24:08 PDT 2002
    kml@fugu:/usr/src/sys/arch/cobalt/compile/FUGU
160 MB memory, 145 MB free, 8292 KB in 2073 buffers
mainbus0 (root)
com0 at mainbus0 addr 0x1c800000 level 3: st16650a, working fifo
com0: console
cpu0 at mainbus0: QED RM5200 CPU (0x28a0) Rev. 10.0 with built-in FPU Rev. 10.0
cpu0: 32KB/32B 2-way set-associative L1 Instruction cache, 48 TLB entries
cpu0: 32KB/32B 2-way set-associative write-back L1 Data cache
gt0 at mainbus0 addr 0x14000000
pci0 at gt0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: Galileo GT-64111 System Controller, rev 1
tlp0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1
tlp0: interrupting at level 1
tlp0: Ethernet address 00:10:e0:00:5a:3e
lxtphy0 at tlp0 phy 1: LXT970 10/100 media interface, rev. 3
lxtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C586 (Apollo VP) PCI-ISA Bridge, rev 39
pciide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 1: VIA Technologies VT82C586 (Apollo VP) ATA33 controller
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 4W060H4>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 57298 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 117347328 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller (USB serial bus, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 9 function 2 not configured
tlp1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1
tlp1: interrupting at level 2
tlp1: Ethernet address 00:10:e0:00:57:4d
lxtphy1 at tlp1 phy 1: LXT970 10/100 media interface, rev. 3
lxtphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
mountroot: trying nfs...
mountroot: trying ext2fs...
mountroot: trying ffs...
root file system type: ffs
init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
IP Filter: v3.4.25 initialized.  Default = pass all, Logging = enabled

Just for grins, here's my configuration:


# $NetBSD: GENERIC,v 1.29 2002/04/12 08:10:55 gmcgarry Exp $
#
# GENERIC machine description file
# 
# This machine description file is used to generate the default NetBSD
# kernel.  The generic kernel does not include all options, subsystems
# and device drivers, but should be useful for most applications.
#
# The machine description file can be customised for your specific
# machine to reduce the kernel size and improve its performance.
#
# For further information on compiling NetBSD kernels, see the config(8)
# man page.
#
# For further information on hardware support for this architecture, see
# the intro(4) man page.  For further information about kernel options
# for this architecture, see the options(4) man page.  For an explanation
# of each device driver in this file see the section 4 man page for the
# device.

include 	"arch/cobalt/conf/std.cobalt"

#ident 		"GENERIC-$Revision: 1.29 $"

maxusers	32

# Standard system options
options 	KTRACE		# system call tracing support
options 	SYSVMSG		# System V message queues
options 	SYSVSEM		# System V semaphores
#options 	SEMMNI=10	# number of semaphore identifiers
#options 	SEMMNS=60	# number of semaphores in system
#options 	SEMUME=10	# max number of undo entries per process
#options 	SEMMNU=30	# number of undo structures in system
options 	SYSVSHM		# System V shared memory
#options 	SHMMAXPGS=1024	# 1024 pages is the default
#options 	LKM		# loadable kernel modules
#options 	NTP		# network time protocol
#options 	UCONSOLE	# users can redirect console (unsafe)
#options 	USERCONF	# userconf(4) support
#options	PIPE_SOCKETPAIR	# smaller, but slower pipe(2)

# Debugging options
options 	DIAGNOSTIC	# extra kernel sanity checking
options 	DEBUG		# extra kernel debugging support
#options 	KMEMSTATS	# kernel memory statistics (vmstat -m)
options 	DDB		# kernel dynamic debugger
#options 	DDB_HISTORY_SIZE=100 # enable history editing in DDB
makeoptions	DEBUG="-g"	# compile full symbol table

# Compatibility options
options 	COMPAT_43	# compatibility with 4.3BSD binaries
#options 	COMPAT_10	# NetBSD 0.9 binary compatibility
#options 	COMPAT_10	# NetBSD 1.0 binary compatibility
#options 	COMPAT_11	# NetBSD 1.1 binary compatibility
#options 	COMPAT_12	# NetBSD 1.2 binary compatibility
#options 	COMPAT_13	# NetBSD 1.3 binary compatibility
#options 	COMPAT_14	# NetBSD 1.4 binary compatibility
#options 	EXEC_ECOFF	# exec ECOFF binaries
#options 	COMPAT_ULTRIX	# binary compatibility with Ultrix
#options 	TCP_COMPAT_42	# 4.2BSD TCP/IP bug compat. Not recommended.

# File systems
file-system	FFS		# Berkeley Fast Filesystem
file-system 	EXT2FS		# second extended file system (linux)
file-system	NFS		# Sun NFS-compatible filesystem client
file-system	KERNFS		# kernel data-structure filesystem
#file-system	NULLFS		# NULL layered filesystem
#file-system 	OVERLAY		# overlay file system
file-system	MFS		# memory-based filesystem
file-system	FDESC		# user file descriptor filesystem
#file-system	UMAPFS		# uid/gid remapping filesystem
#file-system	LFS		# Log-based filesystem (still experimental)
#file-system	PORTAL		# portal filesystem (still experimental)
file-system	PROCFS		# /proc
#file-system	CD9660		# ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge file system
#file-system	UNION		# union file system
#file-system	MSDOSFS		# MS-DOS FAT filesystem(s).
#file-system 	CODA		# Coda File System; also needs vcoda (below)

# File system options
options 	NFSSERVER	# Sun NFS-compatible filesystem server
#options 	QUOTA		# FFS quotas
#options 	FFS_EI		# FFS Endian Independant support
options 	SOFTDEP		# FFS soft updates support.
#options 	EXT2FS_SYSTEM_FLAGS # makes ext2fs file flags (append and
				# immutable) behave as system flags.

# Networking options
options 	GATEWAY		# IP packet forwarding
options 	INET		# Internet protocols
#options 	INET6		# IPV6
#options 	IPSEC		# IP security
#options 	IPSEC_ESP	# IP security (encryption part; define w/IPSEC)
#options 	IPSEC_DEBUG	# debug for IP security
#options 	MROUTING	# packet forwarding of multicast packets
#options 	NS		# Xerox NS networking
#options 	NSIP		# Xerox NS tunneling over IP
#options 	ISO,TPIP	# OSI networking
#options 	EON		# OSI tunneling over IP
#options 	CCITT,LLC,HDLC	# X.25
#options 	NETATALK	# AppleTalk (over Ethernet) protocol
#options 	PPP_BSDCOMP	# BSD-Compress compression support for PPP
#options 	PPP_DEFLATE	# Deflate compression support for PPP
#options 	PPP_FILTER	# Active filter support for PPP (requires bpf)
options 	PFIL_HOOKS	# pfil(9) packet filter hooks
options 	IPFILTER_LOG	# ipmon(8) log support
#options 	TCP_DEBUG	# Record last TCP_NDEBUG packets with SO_DEBUG

# These options enable verbose messages for several subsystems.
# Warning, these may compile large string tables into the kernel!
options 	PCIVERBOSE	# verbose PCI device autoconfig messages
options 	PCI_CONFIG_DUMP	# verbosely dump PCI config space
options 	SCSIVERBOSE	# human readable SCSI error messages
#options 	MIIVERBOSE	# verbose PHY autoconfig messages

#options 	NFS_BOOT_DHCP

config		netbsd	root on ? type ?

mainbus0 	at root

cpu0 		at mainbus?

com0		at mainbus? addr 0x1c800000 level 3
options 	COM16650

gt0 		at mainbus? addr 0x14000000

pci* 		at gt0
pchb* 		at pci? dev ? function ?
pcib* 		at pci? dev ? function ?

# PCI serial/parallel interfaces
#puc* 		at pci? dev ? function ? 	# PCI "universal" comm. cards
#com* 		at puc? port ?
#lpt* 		at puc? port ?
#cy* 		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial cards

# PCI SCSI controllers
#adv*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# AdvanSys 1200[A,B], 9xx[U,UA]
#adw*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# AdvanSys 9xxUW SCSI
#ahc*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Adaptec [23]94x, aic78x0 SCSI
#bha*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# BusLogic 9xx SCSI
#dpt*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# DPT SmartCache/SmartRAID
#isp*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FC
#siop*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# NCR 53c8xx SCSI
#pcscp*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# AMD 53c974 PCscsi-PCI SCSI

# SCSI bus support
#scsibus* 	at adv?
#scsibus* 	at adw?
#scsibus* 	at ahc?
#scsibus* 	at bha?
#scsibus* 	at dpt?
#scsibus* 	at isp?
#scsibus* 	at siop?
#scsibus* 	at pcscp?

# SCSI devices
#sd*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?	# SCSI disk drives
#st*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?	# SCSI tape drives
#cd*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?	# SCSI CD-ROM drives
#ch*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?	# SCSI autochangers
#ss*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?	# SCSI scanners
#uk*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?	# SCSI unknown

# RAID controllers and devices
#cac*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Compaq array controller
#ca*		at cac? unit ?			# Compaq array disk device

# IDE and related devices
# PCI IDE controllers - see pciide(4) for supported hardware.
# The 0x0001 flag force the driver to use DMA, even if the driver doesn't know
# how to set up DMA modes for this chip. This may work, or may cause
# a machine hang with some controllers.
pciide* 	at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000

# IDE drives
# Flags are used only with controllers that support DMA operations
# and mode settings (e.g. some pciide controllers)
# The lowest order four bits (rightmost digit) of the flags define the PIO
# mode to use, the next set of four bits the DMA mode and the third set the
# UltraDMA mode. For each set of four bits, the 3 lower bits define the mode
# to use, and the last bit must be 1 for this setting to be used.
# For DMA and UDMA, 0xf (1111) means 'disable'.
# 0x0fac means 'use PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, disable UltraDMA'.
# (0xc=1100, 0xa=1010, 0xf=1111)
# 0x0000 means "use whatever the drive claims to support".
wd* 		at pciide? channel ? drive ? flags 0x0000

# PCI network interfaces
#de*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# DEC 21x4x-based Ethernet
#en*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# ENI/Adaptec ATM
#ep*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# 3Com 3c59x
#ex*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# 3Com 90x[BC]
#epic*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# SMC EPIC/100 Ethernet
#esh*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Essential HIPPI card
#fpa*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# DEC DEFPA FDDI
#fxp*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Intel EtherExpress PRO10+/100B
#le*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# PCnet-PCI Ethernet
#ne*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# NE2000-compatible Ethernet
#ntwoc*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Riscom/N2 PCI Sync Serial
#sip*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# SiS 900 Ethernet
#tl*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# ThunderLAN-based Ethernet
tlp*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# DECchip 21x4x (and clones)
#options 	TLP_MATCH_21040
#options 	TLP_MATCH_21041
#options 	TLP_MATCH_21140
options 	TLP_MATCH_21142
#vr*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# VIA Rhine Fast Ethernet
#lmc*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Lan Media Corp SSI/HSSI/DS3
#rtk*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Realtek 8129/8139
wi*		at pci? dev ? function ?        # Intersil Prism Mini-PCI (802.11b)

# MII/PHY support
#exphy*		at mii? phy ?			# 3Com internal PHYs
#icsphy*		at mii? phy ?			# ICS189x PHYs
#inphy*		at mii? phy ?			# Intel 82555 PHYs
#iophy*		at mii? phy ?			# Intel 82553 PHYs
lxtphy*		at mii? phy ?			# Level One LXT-970 PHYs
#nsphy*		at mii? phy ?			# NS83840 PHYs
#nsphyter* 	at mii? phy ?			# NS83843 PHYs
#qsphy*		at mii? phy ?			# Quality Semiconductor QS6612
#sqphy*		at mii? phy ?			# Seeq 80220/80221/80223 PHYs
#tlphy*		at mii? phy ?			# ThunderLAN PHYs
#tqphy*		at mii? phy ?			# TDK Semiconductor PHYs
#ukphy*		at mii? phy ?			# generic unknown PHYs

# PCI audio devices
#clcs*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Cirrus Logic CS4280
#eap*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Ensoniq AudioPCI
#eso*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive
#fms*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# Forte Media FM801
#sbl*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# SoundBlaster Live!
#sv*		at pci? dev ? function ?	# S3 SonicVibes

# Pseudo-devices

# Disk/mass storage pseudo-devices
#pseudo-device	ccd		4		# concatenated disk devices
#pseudo-device	raid		8		# RAIDframe disk driver
options 	RAID_AUTOCONFIG			# auto-configuration of RAID
# Options to enable various other RAIDframe RAID types.
# options	RF_INCLUDE_EVENODD=1
# options	RF_INCLUDE_RAID5_RS=1
# options	RF_INCLUDE_PARITYLOGGING=1
# options	RF_INCLUDE_CHAINDECLUSTER=1
# options	RF_INCLUDE_INTERDECLUSTER=1
# options 	RF_INCLUDE_PARITY_DECLUSTERING=1
# options	RF_INCLUDE_PARITY_DECLUSTERING_DS=1
pseudo-device	md		1		# memory disk device (ramdisk)
#pseudo-device	vnd		4		# disk-like interface to files

# Network pseudo-devices
pseudo-device	bpfilter	8		# Berkeley packet filter
pseudo-device	ipfilter			# IP filter (firewall) and NAT
pseudo-device	loop				# network loopback
#pseudo-device	ppp		2		# Point-to-Point Protocol
#pseudo-device	pppoe				# PPP over Ethernet (RFC 2516)
#pseudo-device	sl		2		# Serial Line IP
#pseudo-device	strip		2		# Starmode Radio IP (Metricom)
#pseudo-device	tun		2		# network tunneling over tty
#pseudo-device	gre		2		# generic L3 over IP tunnel
#pseudo-device	gif		4		# RFC1933 tunnel
#pseudo-device	faith		1		# IPv[46] tcp relay translation
#pseudo-device	stf		1		# 6to4 IPv6 over IPv4 encapsulation
#pseudo-device	vlan			# IEEE 802.1q encapsulation
#pseudo-device	bridge			# simple inter-network bridging

# Miscellaneous pseudo-devices
pseudo-device	pty				# pseudo-terminals
#pseudo-device	tb		1		# tablet line discipline
#pseudo-device	sequencer	1		# MIDI sequencer
# rnd works; RND_COM does not on port i386 yet.
pseudo-device	rnd				# /dev/random & kernel generator
#options 	RND_COM				# use "com" randomness (BROKEN)

# A pseudo device needed for Coda		# also needs CODA (above)
#pseudo-device	vcoda		4		# coda minicache <-> venus comm.