Hello.  Following up on this old thread, I've just acquired an MPI350
Mini-PCI Aironet adapter.  I've applied Rui's patches, which he admits are
incomplete, and believe I see what needs to be done to make the an(4)
driver work with these cards.  It looks like the rest of the Aironet cards
use Programmed i/o to get data in and out of the card.  However, it looks
like one needs to used DMA memory segments to get data in and out of the
Mini-PCI 350.  As of this writing, it looks as though this card is still
not supported in NetBSd-current, or OpenBSD-current, but FreeBSD supports
this card.  
	My question is whether anyone else has created patches to the an(4)
driver, or any other driver, to get these cards working?
If not, I'll have a stab at it, though I'm not sure I entirely know how to
use DMA segments in drivers.
If anyone has patches they'd like me to test, I'm happy to test them.  It
would be best if those patches were against 3.x, but I could be Pursuaded
to try later kernels if someone has something they think works.
	Any thoghts would be greatly appreciated.
-thanks
-Brian



   Subject: Re: Trouble with NetBSD 3.0 and Cisco Aironet 350
   To: Victor Lagerkvist <plumsaren@gmail.com>
   From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
   List: port-i386
   Date: 05/20/2006 19:39:26
On 2006.05.20 15:15:11 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2006.05.20 15:28:20 +0200, Victor Lagerkvist wrote:
> > Greetings, I'm having trouble getting NetBSD to work correctly on my IBM 
> > ThinkPad R40 with a Cisco Aironet 350 mini-PCI wireless card. When 
> > running "ifconfig -a" everything that appears is the regular wired card, an
d 
> > during boot time the following error message appears (full dmesg included a
s 
> > a attachment):
> > 
> > cbb0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PCI-CardBus Bridge
 
> > (rev. 0x00)
> > Aironet Wireless Communications MPI350 Mini-PCI Wireless LAN Adapter 
> > (miscellaneous network) at pci2 dev 2 function 0 not configured
> > 
> > As far as I know, the an(4)-driver that supposedly supports this card is 
> > included in the GENERIC-kernel that I use, so as a new NetBSD user I feel a
 
> > little lost... Any tips or suggestions on how I should proceed would be 
> > greatly appreciated.
> 
> The Aironet MPI350 is not being recognized by the an(4) device driver.

This is not yet complete, but what happens with this patch ?

        -- Rui Paulo