Intel Wireless 2100, 2200bg, 2915bg, 3945abg, 4965agn, IWIDarwin drivers for mac os x 10.4 and 10.5 *under development* Options

[TNW]

will it ever be possible for the 2200 to be detected as an airport?? Or will we always have to use it as nsGUI??

Yes that's possible , but I can't do that because I don't have an 2200 card and at this moment we don't know how to
show the scan result.

But maybe when the 3945 will be finshed , I going to start this.

[Masoud]

I got kernel panic when using iwi3945.kext IOEthernetController Version.
The following link is the panic log screenshot.
http://link.imgshare.us/2sj4L2

[arob92]

Yes that's possible , but I can't to that because I don't have an 2200 card and at this moment we don't know how to
show the scan result.

But maybe when the 3945 will be finshed , I going to start this.

Thx for a fast and straight answer!!

[TNW]

Hi ,
This new version has no more KP , and seems to be fine .

Now the card is waiting for scan , associating ,... I will start this now.
The Powersave seems to work ( that fine ).

I need your help :

I have a problem with IOMallocContiguous (DMAallocMemory doesn't work too), so the driver is working 50% of the time .
It's a surprise , surprise XD.

For instance (Bad lauch):

CODE

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_enqueue_hcmd Sending command POWER_TABLE_CMD (#77), seq: 0x0400, 36 bytes at 0[0]:4
Wait POWER_TABLE_CMD Condition: 0ms left
error iwl3945: Error sending POWER_TABLE_CMD: time out after 50ms.

Can you post your log of the new driver ?

Thank's and Bye !

Attached File(s)

 iwi3945_loadable.kext.zip ( 161.89K ) Number of downloads: 245

 

[NecronoiD]

Test under 10.4.11

Greyjuice:/ root# kextload iwi3945-loadable.kext/
kextload: cannot resolve dependencies for kernel extension iwi3945-loadable.kext/
Greyjuice:/ root# uname -a
Darwin Greyjuice.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Thu Nov 1 16:59:12 SCT 2007; Made by ToH:xnu-792.22.5/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
Greyjuice:/ root#

It looks like Tiger users will have to migrate to 10.5...

[blackentangled]

log from new iwi3945 -- test system: leopard 10.5.2

CODE

U iwl3945_irq_tasklet TASKLET : inta 0x80000008, enabled 0x00000000, fh 0x00010000
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_rx_reply_alive Alive ucode status 0x00000001 revision 0x1 0x0
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_rx_reply_alive Runtime Alive received.
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_irq_tasklet TASKLET : inta 0x00000001, enabled 0x00000000, fh 0x00000000
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_irq_tasklet Alive interrupt
__ IN iwl3945_alive_start __
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_alive_start Runtime Alive received.
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_verify_inst_sparse ucode inst image size is 900
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_verify_inst_sparse ucode inst image size is 2668
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_verify_inst_sparse ucode inst image size is 80524
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_verify_ucode Runtime uCode is good in inst SRAM
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_alive_start RFKILL status: 0x1
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_init_channel_map Initializing regulatory info from EEPROM
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_init_channel_map Parsing data for 56 channels.
IOPCCard info:   iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_update_power_cmd Flags value = 0x00000008
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_update_power_cmd Tx timeout = 0
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_update_power_cmd Rx timeout = 0
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_update_power_cmd Sleep interval vector = { 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 }
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_enqueue_hcmd Sending command POWER_TABLE_CMD (#77), seq: 0x0400, 36 bytes at 0[0]:4
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_irq_tasklet TASKLET : inta 0x82000008, enabled 0x00000000, fh 0x00010000
error iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x82000008.
error iwl3945: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
error iwl3945: Status: 0x00010132, Config: 00000000 count: 1
error iwl3945: Desc       Time       asrtPC  blink2 ilink1  nmiPC   Line
error iwl3945: SYSASSERT     (#5) 0000013316 0x0089A 0x00FE0 0x00304 0x00000 57

error iwl3945: Start IWL Event Log Dump: display count 8, wraps 0
error iwl3945: 0000000000    0x000000d5    0117
error iwl3945: 0000000000    0x000000be    0118
error iwl3945: 0000002108    0x00000000    0651
error iwl3945: 0000002129    0xffffff23    0454
error iwl3945: 0000002130    0x00000000    0472
error iwl3945: 0000002151    0x000000c5    0104
error iwl3945: 0000013315    0x00003ffd    0401
error iwl3945: 0000013318    0x00000100    0125
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd RX CONFIG:
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u16 channel: 0x0
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u32 flags: 0x00000000
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u32 filter_flags: 0x00000000
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8 dev_type: 0x0
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8 ofdm_basic_rates: 0x00
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8 cck_basic_rates: 0x00
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8[6] node_addr: 00:00:00:00:00:00
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8[6] bssid_addr: 00:00:00:00:00:00
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u16 assoc_id: 0x0
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_irq_handle_error Restarting adapter due to uCode error.
error iwl3945: Error Reply type 0xerror iwl3945: 00000000 cmd UNKNOWN (0xFD) seq 0x0000 ser 0x000000FD
U __iwl3945_down iwl3945 is going down
Wait POWER_TABLE_CMD Condition: 49ms left
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_send_cmd_sync Command POWER_TABLE_CMD failed: FW Error
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_enqueue_hcmd Sending command REPLY_BT_CONFIG (#9b), seq: 0x0401, 16 bytes at 1[1]:4
Wait REPLY_BT_CONFIG Condition: 0ms left
error iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_BT_CONFIG: time out after 50ms.
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_alive_start ALIVE processing complete.
__ OUT iwl3945_alive_start __
Wait START_ALIVE Condition: 118ms left
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_open leave
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_add_interface enter: id 3, type 2
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_add_interface Set: 31:32:31:32:31:32
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_add_interface leave
IOPCCard debug:  : Does not support passive scan, disabled
error iwl3945: Can't stop Rx DMA.
error iwl3945: U iwl3945_clear_free_frames 0 frames on pre-allocated heap on clear.
error iwl3945: Failed to get channel info for channel 0 [3]

[TNW]

It's an error about IOMallocContiguous , and I think therre is no hope to use this (IOMallocContiguous)...

We need two 2 segments of memory contiguous with a page-size of 16K but OSX have trouble to alloc a page-size over 4k.

[JasMac]

Hello guys!
I have installed the iwi2200 and now the wireless seems to be detected, but when i "set the power on" on the nsGUY the OS hangs and it's not responding....yuo have experienced this problem?
I have an Acer 5504WXMi laptop.
Thnx!!

[dong]

It's an error about IOMallocContiguous , and I think therre is no hope to use this (IOMallocContiguous)...

We need two 2 segments of memory contiguous with a page-size of 16K but OSX have trouble to alloc a page-size over 4k.

I assume you already read the source for IOMallocContiguous and it may not help much. But it seems page-size is a pre-defined const, what do you mean 16k and 4k here for page-size? Sorry if it's a newbie question.

[jalavoui]

It's an error about IOMallocContiguous , and I think therre is no hope to use this (IOMallocContiguous)...
We need two 2 segments of memory contiguous with a page-size of 16K but OSX have trouble to alloc a page-size over 4k.

i don't know if you changed pci_alloc_consistent() but you should changed it to:

void *pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *hwdev, size_t size, int pagesize,
dma_addr_t *dma_handle) {
return IOMallocContiguous(size, pagesize, dma_handle);
}

and need to change all calls to this function with the right pagesize value otherwise it will never work

in iwi2200 i use MemoryDmaAlloc() for firmware memory allocations and IOMallocContiguous() for tx init
take a look and try it in iwi3945

maybe this work fine in 10.5 - you need to test it:
//gOSMallocTag = OSMalloc_Tagalloc("insanelymac.iwidarwin.control", OSMT_DEFAULT);// OSMT_PAGEABLE

if the iwl3945_send_power_mode() is giving fw errors - remove it. i was unable to use this in iwi2200

About posting logs

please use this
http://iwidarwin.googlecode.com/files/getlogs3.command.zip
to post logs

we need logs for iwi2200 and iwi3945

i'd like to help more writing code but my imac just won't let me

[TNW]

I assume you already read the source for IOMallocContiguous and it may not help much. But it seems page-size is a pre-defined const, what do you mean 16k and 4k here for page-size? Sorry if it's a newbie question.

In the source , look at the parameter "aligment" , it isn't pre-defined.



MemoryDmaAlloc uses kIOMemoryPhysicallyContiguous and the method member inTaskWithOptions of IOBufferMemoryDescriptor uses IOMallocContiguous.
I'll take a look at OSMalloc_Tagalloc.

The question is how can I have 16k of memory with contiguous physical adresse ?
Maybe with DART?

Many thank's !!!

Herre the log of the new driver when it loads

Attached File(s)

 Good_log.rtf ( 9.22K ) Number of downloads: 47

 

[abidin]

This is my log, iwi3945 on 10.5.2:

CODE

error detected. Restarting 0x82000008.

error iwl3945: Start IWL Error Log Dump:

error iwl3945: Status: 0x00010132, Config: 00000000 count: 1

error iwl3945: Desc Time asrtPC blink2 ilink1 nmiPC Line

error iwl3945: SYSASSERT (#5) 0000013230 0x0089A 0x00FE0 0x00304 0x00000 57


error iwl3945: Start IWL Event Log Dump: display count 8, wraps 0

error iwl3945: 0000000000 0x000000d5 0117

error iwl3945: 0000000000 0x000000be 0118

error iwl3945: 0000002107 0x00000000 0651

error iwl3945: 0000002128 0xffffff5a 0454

error iwl3945: 0000002129 0x00000000 0472

error iwl3945: 0000002150 0x000000c5 0104

error iwl3945: 0000013228 0x00000000 0401

error iwl3945: 0000013231 0x00000100 0125

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd RX CONFIG:

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u16 channel: 0x0

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u32 flags: 0x00000000

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u32 filter_flags: 0x00000000

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8 dev_type: 0x0

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8 ofdm_basic_rates: 0x00

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8 cck_basic_rates: 0x00

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8[6] node_addr: 00:00:00:00:00:00

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u8[6] bssid_addr: 00:00:00:00:00:00

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_print_rx_config_cmd u16 assoc_id: 0x0

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_irq_handle_error Restarting adapter due to uCode error.

error iwl3945: Error Reply teyrror iwl3945: pe 0U x_0000000_iwl3940 cm5_dd owUn NKiwNOWl394N (0x500 is) goseq 0xin0g down

000 ser 0x00000000

Wait POWER_TABLE_CMD Condition: 49ms left

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_send_cmd_sync Command POWER_TABLE_CMD failed: FW Error

error iwl3945: No space for Tx

error iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_BT_CONFIG: iwl3945_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_alive_start ALIVE processing complete.

__ OUT iwl3945_alive_start __

Wait START_ALIVE Condition: 170ms left

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_open leave

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_add_interface enter: id 3, type 2

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_add_interface Set: 31:32:31:32:31:32

error iwl3945: U iwl3945_mac_add_interface leave

hope can be useful

[English Haze]

My logs from a Samsung Q45 laptop. Hope I've done this right. I'm a complete newcomer to OS X.

Thanks for all the hard work

Incidentally, my hangs on the first occurrence of the line containing mDNSResponder in the console log unless I boot with the -x safe mode flag. Is this because of the network drivers or some other reason?

Attached File(s)

 dmesg.txt ( 4K ) Number of downloads: 17
 ioreg.txt ( 28.04K ) Number of downloads: 9
 system.txt ( 19.04K ) Number of downloads: 12

 

[arob92]

i Have never made logs before... after i do this:

open Terminal
% sudo -s
% cd ~/Desktop
% dmesg > dmesg.txt
% cat /var/log/system.log > system.txt
% ioreg -w 0 > ioreg.txt

Now you have 3 log files; dmesg.txt, system.txt and ioreg.txt you can find them on the desktop

and i have the 3 log files on my desktop, do i just post them or do i have to do something else??

[hypnotic]

please post them here like others.

[arob92]

These are logs from iwi2200:

I cant upload the sytem.txt one because it says its too large....what should i do??

Attached File(s)

 dmesg.txt ( 4K ) Number of downloads: 8
 ioreg.txt ( 32.22K ) Number of downloads: 4

 

[Symuc]

TNW wanted me to share with everyone some rather big news. He has been hard at work, delving into the innards of the Darwin kernel, finding strange and obscure misfeatures involving, among other things, non-aligned IOMallocContiguous() calls.

In addition to fixing the initialization problems, the card now properly starts up, initializes, receives data, and enters ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(). Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first packet received by this driver:

CODE

A80000001B026B87000006000000000001002300000
A830080000000FFFFFFFFFFFF001E4C427849001E4C
427849C04F8691AC642700000064001104000C4C69
7665626F782D44454430010882848B962430486C030
1010504010300002A01002F010032040C121860DD16
0050F20101000050F20201000050F20201000050F20
2DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E
0062322F00

Which looks an awful lot like an ESSID broadcast. Specifically, of the AP named "Livebox", which I'm told belongs to TNW himself.

There is much more work to do, but now the hardware is at least starting to behave.

[arob92]

TNW wanted me to share with everyone some rather big news. He has been hard at work, delving into the innards of the Darwin kernel, finding strange and obscure misfeatures involving, among other things, non-aligned IOMallocContiguous() calls.

In addition to fixing the initialization problems, the card now properly starts up, initializes, receives data, and enters ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(). Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first packet received by this driver:

CODE

A80000001B026B87000006000000000001002300000
A830080000000FFFFFFFFFFFF001E4C427849001E4C
427849C04F8691AC642700000064001104000C4C69
7665626F782D44454430010882848B962430486C030
1010504010300002A01002F010032040C121860DD16
0050F20101000050F20201000050F20201000050F20
2DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E
0062322F00

Which looks an awful lot like an ESSID broadcast. Specifically, of the AP named "Livebox", which I'm told belongs to TNW himself.

There is much more work to do, but now the hardware is at least starting to behave.

can u explain to me what this is?? and what card it is for??

And also i uploaded to logs bu when i try to upload system.txt it tells me that it is too large to upload. What should i do?? or are those 2 enough??

[cabalccb]

Frankie

I have a p1610 with iAtkos,

Everything works less audio, touchscreen and wifi. I tried to install tabletmagic, iwi3945 and don't work.

Please help

[jalavoui]

the utility for making logs was wrong
please download getlogs4.command.zip from http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/
and post logs again

if system.log is large just zip it

need logs for iwi3945, iwi2200

TNW, Symuc
have you tried the getPhysicalSegmentsWithCoalesce() for the memory problem?
mac os as strange behaviors when dealing with memory allocation...

just remebered that the driver is using mac80211 code - can be hard to make it work
the ieee80211 code from iwi2200 is stable but it will probably fail for "a" and "g" mode
at this time i guess the driver need to do this:

1) handle beacons, probe responses,etc (ieeerx_mgmt)
2) rx data (ieee_rx)
3) tx data (outputpacket and ieee_xmit)

if you're using the mac80211 code try to follow this order - it will help to make things work