Dave

have you been able to get it working on the alpha. I also have a wavelan pci
card.

I will try it and see waht happens.

Has anybody got wireless working with an alpha and with what hardware.

Joseph

Dave Huang wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
> > I have alphastation 400/233 with a raycom isa pcmcia card and a wavelan
> > bronze wirless card. When the wireless card configures it finds the
> > wireless card and a address space, but can't attach due not being able
> > to have mac address.
>
> I have a D-Link DWL-650, but is what you're seeing something like this?
>
> wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0: D, Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card, Version 01.02,
>  port 0x400-0x43fwi0: init failed
> wi0: could not get mac address, attach failed
>
> At first, I was thinking it was a problem with the wi driver, but then I
> tried putting the card into my laptop's cardbus slot, and it worked
> fine. I get the "could not get mac address" error with the Raycom PCMCIA
> adapter in both NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/alpha. However, if I boot the
> i386 into Windows NT 4.0, the card works fine. So... it's something
> about NetBSD, but I haven't been able to figure out what :(
>
> What I've noticed is that when the wi driver reads from the card's I/O
> space, it's always getting 8. With a patch Peter Seebach posted a couple
> months back, I got:
>
> wi0: too many bytes [8, expected 2] reading type 0xFCE0
> wi0: too many bytes [8, expected 4] reading type 0xFC01
> wi0: could not get mac address, attach failed
>
> I tried adding more debug info, and no matter what the driver tried to
> read, it was seeing an 8.
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