Subject: Re: WiFi
To: NetBSD mailing list <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/2004 09:32:42
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:16:37 +0100 (BST)
> From: Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk>
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: WiFi
> 
> Hi
>
> Since I'm going to the Linux World Expo in London this week to do some
> things in the .Org village I'd like to make sure that my NetBSD laptop
> works well enough to check mail and web pages on the train and at the
> show.  To this end I'm hoping to get my Cisco Aironet 350 WiFi card
> working with NetBSD 1.6.2.
>
> After recompiling the kernel and uncommenting the lines in the GENERIC
> kernel for WiFi I now find that I get the following in Dmesg.....
>
> " an0 at pcmcia1 function 0: Cisco Systems, 350 Series Wireless LAN
> Adapter port 0x400-00x43fpcmcia1: card irq 15
> an0: read record failed
> an0: failed to attach controller "
>
>
> So, looks as though I've managed to compile in support for the card but
> for some reason it doesn't start up when I boot the machine.  Anyone
> know what I'm doing wrong here ?  I've had a look at...
>
Looking at the man page for wi(4), it looks like your card isn't 
supported.

Yasir