From: Kevin Elliott (woolsherpahatgmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 02:40:41 CDT

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I went ahead and updated everything to 3.7. Needless to say it took a
while on my Ultra5. Unfortunately, there's no improvements. The error
message is still the same. I feel I am SOL such as it is.

Kevin Elliott

Matthew S Elmore wrote:
> Support for many wireless cards was improved in 3.7. Perhaps you will
> have better luck with the latest release?
>
> Kevin Elliott wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Now that I've sent a "test" email to list and recived the collective
>> hatred of it's members, I'll try posting my support-related question
>> again. Sorry, I've just sent two three version of this email and
>> recieved no responses or had my messages loopback to me so I wondered
>> if I had ended up on the spam kill list since I'm using a gmail
>> account. Sorry, sorry, and sorry, I won't do it again.
>>
>> I've been trying to get my D-Link DWL-520 802.11b card to broadcast as
>> a host AP the last few weeks with little success. I'm using OpenBSD
>> 3.6 and Sun UltraSPARC 5. I was hoping someone here would be able to
>> point me in the right direction. I don't think the card is being
>> correctly "detected" by OpenBSD.
>>
>> I am also still using 3.6-stable. I've considered trying to upgrade
>> to 3.7 but I'm not sure it's been released for the sparc64 platform.
>> At least the isos haven't hit the mirrors yet.
>>
>> A further thought, is that I could just skip the whole wireless card
>> stuff and buy somekind of Wireless AP/Bridge with firmware and just
>> use a bridge between it an ethernet card to get my Host AP jones. If
>> I did this, would I be able to get full OpenVPN and PF functionality?
>> Hmm, just a thought.
>>
>> I get this with dmesg:
>>
>> # dmesg |grep wi0
>> wi0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Intersil PRISM2.5" rev 0x01: ivec 18wi0:
>> init failed
>>
>> As far as I can tell it's a Prism2.5 chipset card which is supported
>> by the hardware compatibility list. It also seems to minimize the
>> chance that it's a different chipset since I know some cards changed
>> chipsets without changing the model number.
>>
>> Someone suggested I change the OBP local-mac-addresses variable to
>> true, which I did, but that didn't seem to improve the problem or
>> change the error message.
>>
>> Any help at all would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've also included my full dmesg output just in case someone might
>> find it useful:
>>
>> -----
>>
>> console is keyboard/display
>> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>> The Regents of the University of California. All rights
>> reserved.
>> Copyright (c) 1995-2004 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
>> http://www.OpenBSD.org
>>
>> OpenBSD 3.6-stable (GENERIC) #0: Sun May 1 12:07:28 AKDT 2005
>> rootkafka.granola.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC
>> total memory = 536870912
>> avail memory = 480428032
>> using 3276 buffers containing 26836992 bytes of memory
>> bootpath: /pci1f,0/pci1,1/ide3,0/disk0,0
>> mainbus0 (root): Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 400MHz)
>> cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi 400 MHz, version 0 FPU
>> cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 2048K
>> external (64 b/l)
>> psycho0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffc4000
>> SUNW,sabre: impl 0, version 0: ign 7c0 bus range 0 to 2; PCI bus 0
>> DVMA map: c0000000 to e0000000
>> IOTDB: 29e8000 to 2a68000
>> pci0 at psycho0
>> ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x13
>> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
>> ebus0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Sun PCIO Ebus2" rev 0x01
>> auxio0 at ebus0 addr 726000-726003, 728000-728003, 72a000-72a003,
>> 72c000-72c003, 72f000-72f003
>> power at ebus0 addr 724000-724003 ipl 37 not configured
>> SUNW,pll at ebus0 addr 504000-504002 not configured
>> sab0 at ebus0 addr 400000-40007f ipl 43: rev 3.2
>> sabtty0 at sab0 port 0
>> sabtty1 at sab0 port 1
>> comkbd0 at ebus0 addr 3083f8-3083ff ipl 41: layout 34
>> wskbd0 at comkbd0: console keyboard
>> com0 at ebus0 addr 3062f8-3062ff ipl 42, mouse: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
>> lpt0 at ebus0 addr 3043bc-3043cb, 30015c-30015d, 700000-70000f ipl 34:
>> polled
>> fdthree at ebus0 addr 3023f0-3023f7, 706000-70600f, 720000-720003 ipl
>> 39 not configured
>> clock0 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59: hostid 80d15042
>> flashprom at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured
>> audioce0 at ebus0 addr 200000-2000ff, 702000-70200f, 704000-70400f,
>> 722000-722003 ipl 35 ipl 36: nvaddrs 0
>> audio0 at audioce0
>> hme0 at pci1 dev 1 function 1 "Sun HME" rev 0x01: address
>> 08:00:20:d1:50:42
>> nsphy0 at hme0 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
>> hme0: using ivec 3021 for interrupt
>> vgafb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "ATI Mach64 GP" rev 0x5c
>> wsdisplay0 at vgafb0: console (std, sun emulation), using wskbd0
>> pciide0 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "CMD Technology PCI0646" rev 0x03:
>> DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to
>> native-PCI
>> pciide0: using ivec 1820 for native-PCI interrupt
>> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD102BA>
>> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9779MB, 20028960 sectors
>> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
>> atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
>> scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
>> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <LG, CD-ROM CRD-8322B, 1.05> SCSI0
>> 5/cdrom removable
>> cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
>> ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x13
>> pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
>> xl0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "3Com 3c905 100Base-TX" rev 0x00: ivec
>> 10, address 00:60:08:1c:53:7e
>> nsphy1 at xl0 phy 24: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
>> wi0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Intersil PRISM2.5" rev 0x01: ivec 18wi0:
>> init failed
>> : unable to read station address
>> pcons at mainbus0 not configured
>> No counter-timer -- using %tick at 400MHz as system clock.
>> root on wd0a
>> rootdev=0xc00 rrootdev=0x1a00 rawdev=0x1a02
>> WARNING: clock gained 2 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

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