Intel Wireless 2100, 2200bg, 2915bg, 3945abg, 4965agn

yulenice · February 12, 2009

Thanks for all your efforts.

I believe u can do it.Just do it

Kuchen · February 12, 2009

Hi to all

I Have a HP 530 Notebook (the celeron M version)

This is my WLAN Card

Intel PRO Wireless 802.11 a/b/g Wireless

i searched in google and in the forum but i dont found anything if (i will install the last version of ideneb)

Thanks so much and sorry for my crappy english (i'm from italy)

Ok you´ve got a 530 from hp and you want to know wich wirless card it have ?

Ok i have the same Laptop but with a core2duo ( )and it have Intel 3945abg wich does not work at this time.

With kalyway the rest works fine for me.

Hope I can help. If there any questions pm me

jalavoui · February 12, 2009

the ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff address is a old bug - search in this thread (i think it's related with iopcifamlily.kext)

in iwi2100/2200 you can send a command to associate to a network

in iwi3945... well...

i guess a hack can be made by taking some data from scan results (probe responses?)

best way to check this is to use svn latest source and the one i just posted

this is developer only work - i don't need test results

this can also be tested with iwi4965 (copy code from 3945). the 4965 firmware is much more stable

thanks to dong we have some code for io80211 family

ipw_scan() and IO80211Scanner

mercurysquad, do you plan to convert the linux code or just ignore some os x code in io80211?

i think you can use old iwi2200 code, pass the scan results to IO80211Scanner and ignore io80211 code (country, etc)

making the driver show the scan results in airport menu and allowing the user to select a network is 1rst goal

you also can rewrite the mbuf code (rx/tx). maybe this can make the driver work faster

iwi2200 as lot of unnecessary code - use just what you need

lebidou · February 13, 2009

I found this in the FreeBSD wpi driver(here) source (firmware v. 2.14.3), I thought it could be useful :

In if_wpireg.h line 243 :

struct wpi_tx_cmd {
uint8_t	code;
#define WPI_CMD_CONFIGURE	 16
#define WPI_CMD_ASSOCIATE	 17
...

/* structure for command WPI_CMD_ASSOCIATE */
struct wpi_assoc {
uint32_t	flags;
uint32_t	filter;
uint8_t		ofdm_mask;
uint8_t		cck_mask;
uint16_t	reserved;
} __packed;

Nevertheless, this command is never used in the driver.

It seems that the wpi driver uses the WPI_CMD_CONFIGURE command to listen to a particular channel. Plus, the struct it uses is more complete and looks more like the ipw_associate struct used in iwi2200.

This is the definition for it :

/* structure for WPI_CMD_CONFIGURE */
struct wpi_config {
uint8_t		myaddr[IEEE80211_ADDR_LEN];
uint16_t	reserved1;
uint8_t		bssid[IEEE80211_ADDR_LEN];
uint16_t	reserved2;
uint8_t		wlap_bssid_addr[6]; 
uint16_t	reserved3; 
uint8_t		mode;
#define WPI_MODE_HOSTAP		1
#define WPI_MODE_STA		3
#define WPI_MODE_IBSS		4
#define WPI_MODE_MONITOR	6

uint8_t		air_propogation;
uint16_t 	reserved4;
uint8_t		ofdm_mask;
uint8_t		cck_mask;
uint16_t	associd;
uint32_t	flags;
#define WPI_CONFIG_24GHZ	(1 << 0)
#define WPI_CONFIG_CCK		(1 << 1)
#define WPI_CONFIG_AUTO		(1 << 2)
#define WPI_CONFIG_SHSLOT	(1 << 4)
#define WPI_CONFIG_SHPREAMBLE	(1 << 5)
#define WPI_CONFIG_NODIVERSITY	(1 << 7)
#define WPI_CONFIG_ANTENNA_A	(1 << 8)
#define WPI_CONFIG_ANTENNA_B	(1 << 9)
#define WPI_CONFIG_TSF		(1 << 15)

uint32_t	filter;
#define WPI_FILTER_PROMISC	(1 << 0)
#define WPI_FILTER_CTL		(1 << 1)
#define WPI_FILTER_MULTICAST	(1 << 2)
#define WPI_FILTER_NODECRYPT	(1 << 3)
#define WPI_FILTER_BSS		(1 << 5)
#define WPI_FILTER_BEACON	(1 << 6)

uint8_t		chan;
uint16_t	reserved6;
} __packed;

I hope it helps, and that I haven't polluted the thread one more time.

djar007 · February 24, 2009

Hi guys. I followed all the instructions and I would like to say. Fantastic walkthrough on installation of the driver. Really covered everything. Did I get it first time, hell no.

But got to a stage where I could scan through the network selector i put on the desktop. Picked up more networks than the same card running windows 7 which is interesting.

So as I understand it , we can all now scan for networks. No more at this stage. So peeps with the audacity to ask for a working driver, its not fully complete but these guys are really close to getting it working. But it could take a long time. So dont bug)(lol) them.

I learnt a lot from this and really do appreciate the work going into not just testing, but making tutorials for noobs and sharing what has been many hours of trials and stress. djar

jalavoui · March 10, 2009

...

this thread is for development only

if you like to complain about driver development open a new thread

i need a moderator do erase all this posts back to the one i post the latest source code for development

iwi3945/4965 status

need help on fixing the association code

mercurysquad · March 19, 2009

I'm not looking for any contributors. iwidarwin source is open and is at a MUCH advanced stage. If people want to help, they should start with jalavoui's code. The guy ran a one-man-show for 3 effing years and no one really contributed anything significant. It's not respectful to recommend HIM to work with someone when it should be the other way round. Talk is cheap; show us the code.

IntelMacGuy · March 20, 2009

I'm not looking for any contributors. iwidarwin source is open and is at a MUCH advanced stage. If people want to help, they should start with jalavoui's code. The guy ran a one-man-show for 3 effing years and no one really contributed anything significant. It's not respectful to recommend HIM to work with someone when it should be the other way round. Talk is cheap; show us the code.

This post was genius right here. Mercurysquad is 100% right with this.

squeezebag · March 25, 2009

Got the dreaded: "Could not get Id for kernel control" I've done the following:

-Checked and the iwi2200.kext is installed

-Rebooted

-Am not in safe mode

-Have removed and reinstalled iwi2200 three times

-Have reinstalled 10.5.2 twice

-Have been working on this for a week (Grrrrr)

-Have noted random (and perhaps unrelated) messages in the boot log (attached) like:

1. -pci card interrupt, pci status change

2. -dumpPanic[29] error getting reference to device tree (or something like this)

3. -com.apple driver has dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components, use only one style

Any thoughts?

x40 Thinkpad

10.5.2

Intel Pro Wireless Card

(UPDATE 3-26) After more diddling with the iwi2200 kext, I'm beginning the think the fault is with the IOPCCardbridge. The log tels me that it has failed to start. Should I be in a different topic?

Hello? Anyone? Is this thing on?

-andy

ioreg.txt

dmesg.txt

system.txt

asstastic · March 27, 2009

Got the dreaded: "Could not get Id for kernel control" I've done the following:

-Checked and the iwi2200.kext is installed

-Rebooted

-Am not in safe mode

-Have removed and reinstalled iwi2200 three times

-Have reinstalled 10.5.2 twice

-Have been working on this for a week (Grrrrr)

-Have noted random (and perhaps unrelated) messages in the boot log (attached) like:

1. -pci card interrupt, pci status change

2. -dumpPanic[29] error getting reference to device tree (or something like this)

3. -com.apple driver has dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components, use only one style

Any thoughts?

x40 Thinkpad

10.5.2

Intel Pro Wireless Card

(UPDATE 3-26) After more diddling with the iwi2200 kext, I'm beginning the think the fault is with the IOPCCardbridge. The log tels me that it has failed to start. Should I be in a different topic?

Hello? Anyone? Is this thing on?

-andy

ioreg.txt

dmesg.txt

system.txt

Have you tried installing the IOPCCard drivers from this post? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...036&st=500#

squeezebag · March 28, 2009

Have you tried installing the IOPCCard drivers from this post? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...036&st=500#

I did install these drivers - PCCard.10.5.2.Beta2.pkg.zip ( 222.24K ) Number of downloads: 6404. I just went through the install and took the defaults. No help.

lebidou · March 28, 2009

I did install these drivers - PCCard.10.5.2.Beta2.pkg.zip ( 222.24K ) Number of downloads: 6404. I just went through the install and took the defaults. No help.

It didn't solve my problem either. Stuck with ff:ff:ff… MAC Address…

jalavoui · March 31, 2009

iwi3945 release 1213

ethernet version - no airport driver here

the driver tries to associate to the first open network available...

if association fails or if you get a kernel panic shutdown and reboot

download from svn tree

http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/

don't use networkselector

post system.log

what's missing:

send authentication - this will allow the driver to call associate and post-associate

feel free to hack the code and make it work

psotek · April 1, 2009

crash after associated with first open network, but gd job

regards

martin

madchipmunks · April 1, 2009

here is my system log

4965agn on 10.5.5

Although the results don't mention anything I am assuming this because the firmware for 4965agn is not included.

system.txt

DPyro · April 1, 2009

iwi3945 release 1213

ethernet version - no airport driver here

the driver tries to associate to the first open network available...

if association fails or if you get a kernel panic shutdown and reboot

download from svn tree

http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/

don't use networkselector

post system.log

what's missing:

send authentication - this will allow the driver to call associate and post-associate

feel free to hack the code and make it work

Apr  1 13:31:18 macbook kernel[0]: error iwl3945: Unable to initialize PCI module
Apr  1 13:31:18 macbook kernel[0]: iwi3945: Starting
Apr  1 13:31:18 macbook kernel[0]: IOPCCard info:   iwl3945: 
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.23d
Apr  1 13:31:18 macbook kernel[0]: IOPCCard info:   iwl3945: Copyright© 2003-2007
Intel Corporation
Apr  1 13:31:18 macbook kernel[0]: IOPCCard info:   iwl3945: 
Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

No connection, no kernel panic

drumthrasher109 · April 1, 2009

Someone needs to lock this thread.

People, stop trying to get it working. Instead, just wait for these guys (http://projectcamphor.mercurysquad.com/) to get it working.

yushir · April 4, 2009

I've been looking forward both projects for some months and i've been wondering if there's any way to pass directly the pci device interaction to a virtual machine and let it recognize the device using the built-in drivers (ie. Linux) and then get it back to mac via a virtual ethernet device.

What i mean is that running a virtual operating system (with parallels, for example) you can pass directly to the emulated system the physical pci address and let that system interact with it, only having to use a virtual driver to get the network back to the mac so that you can connect to internet via the virtual machine.

I believe that'd be simplier than getting around all encryption systems of the card (up to wpa2 on 3945, which i'm using) and using an small amount of resources (you can boot gentoo with minimal ram and cpu usage), plus drivers for these platforms are open-source so that you can get it easily.

In fact you'd be able to do so if you get the way to pass directly the pci adress to the vm, any ideas?

Edit: Well going on that idea i've found that this is possible on fedora virtual machines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM...vice_Assignment

I'm going to try to get those libraries working on mac via fink, and maybe if i get the vm working i'd be able to assign the physicall bus of the card to the vm.

MacProUser83 · April 5, 2009

I've been looking forward both projects for some months and i've been wondering if there's any way to pass directly the pci device interaction to a virtual machine and let it recognize the device using the built-in drivers (ie. Linux) and then get it back to mac via a virtual ethernet device.

What i mean is that running a virtual operating system (with parallels, for example) you can pass directly to the emulated system the physical pci address and let that system interact with it, only having to use a virtual driver to get the network back to the mac so that you can connect to internet via the virtual machine.

I believe that'd be simplier than getting around all encryption systems of the card (up to wpa2 on 3945, which i'm using) and using an small amount of resources (you can boot gentoo with minimal ram and cpu usage), plus drivers for these platforms are open-source so that you can get it easily.

In fact you'd be able to do so if you get the way to pass directly the pci adress to the vm, any ideas?

Edit: Well going on that idea i've found that this is possible on fedora virtual machines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM...vice_Assignment

I'm going to try to get those libraries working on mac via fink, and maybe if i get the vm working i'd be able to assign the physicall bus of the card to the vm.

hardware not detected on host OS wont ever work on Virtualized OS. kthx

yushir · April 5, 2009

hardware not detected on host OS wont ever work on Virtualized OS. kthx

No, you're wrong! You're linking the virtual machine to the physical pci bus so that the host machine knows nothing about it.

That way you can get almost all drivers to work on mac so we should give it a try.

gymnastdaniel5 · April 5, 2009

Yes, it might work, but if your running a VM anyway, you might as well just run a Windows VM or Linux VM and use it as your web browser whenever you need it .

Though I've never used VM's so I might be an idiot here .

-Daniel

yushir · April 6, 2009

Well i've got to give you some bad news, here's how's all:

The only emulators that can pass directly physicall pci interfaces to the guest machines are Qemu and Kvm (and Xen*) both of them using Libvirt which does all the job.

VMware guys are so lazy they don't want to make it ever possible (you can look on google there's a post saying it from VMware).

Now: Kvm guys are most likely to not to help us, and they say that porting their software from linux to mac is likely to get more time than developing the driver (i asked them on the irc and that was what they said) and told me to look after Xen.

Xen is currently not supporting Mac Os X as a host machine (there was a project named xenU which was given away some years ago), so it isn't an option.

*Xen uses linux kernel and it WON'T WORK unless a full port based on the XNU (Mac) Kernel is done.

Qemu can also use that lib, can be installed on mac via Macports and has a nice gui called Q which actually runs Virtual Machines.

Now the trick is getting the libvirt compiled on Mac OS X and making Qemu load it.

As u might notice the hard thing is to get the libvirt compiled, there are lots of dependencies missing and it's most likely to send us to hell before getting it to work.

I'm not specialized in porting apps to mac and it's not likely i will get anywhere (at least now by now, i've work to do) so may anyone get interested on this?

Well at least i got the info ,

See ya!

PD: For those interested, look at http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4961

Gipnotizer · April 8, 2009

Hello.

I instal iwi3945.kext. I see the wireless network, but i can't connect.

See my system log fnd help me pleas.

My system log iwi3945

1)

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: iwi3945: Starting

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: Someone called createOutputQueue()

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: settCurController [OK]

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard info: iwl3945: Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.23d

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: ieee80211_alloc_hw [OK]

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: PCI device enabled [OK]

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard info: iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: init_waitqueue_head stubbed out!

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard debug: wmaster1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: PCI device enabled [OK]

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: __ IN iwl3945_alive_start __

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: NVID: family specific matching fails

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard info: iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: error iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000008.

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: error iwl3945: Error Reply type 0x00000000 cmd UNKNOWN (0x00) seq 0x0000 ser 0x00000000

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: error iwl3945: No space for Tx

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: error iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_BT_CONFIG: iwl3945_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: __ OUT iwl3945_alive_start __

Apr 8 13:01:58 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard debug: HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=3

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: no netif_running

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: Someone called createOutputQueue()

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: power state (1)

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: darwin_iwi3945::configureInterface()

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: error iwl3945: Can't stop Rx DMA.

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: __ IN iwl3945_alive_start __

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost diskarbitrationd[31]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: Sending RXON

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: * without RXON_FILTER_ASSOC_MSK

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost DirectoryService[32]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: * channel = 1

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost mds[21]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: * bssid = 00:00:00:00:00:00

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost configd[34]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

Apr 8 13:01:59 localhost kernel[0]: __ OUT iwl3945_alive_start __

2)

Apr 8 13:05:25 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: darwin_iwi3945::enable()

Apr 8 13:05:25 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: ifconfig going up

Apr 8 13:05:25 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: IOPCCard debug: en1: dropped data frame to not associated station

Apr 8 13:05:25 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: TXRX_DROP fail

Apr 8 13:05:27 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: bss_add= 02:13:d4:ff:c1:eb ('')

Apr 8 13:05:27 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: q6

Apr 8 13:05:29: --- last message repeated 7 times ---

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: IOPCCard debug: HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=3

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: Sending RXON

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * without RXON_FILTER_ASSOC_MSK

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * channel = 1

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * bssid = 00:00:00:00:00:00

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: Sending RXON

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * without RXON_FILTER_ASSOC_MSK

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * channel = 1

Apr 8 13:05:29 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * bssid = 00:00:00:00:00:00

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: searching for networks...

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: 1) 02:13:d4:ff:c1:eb ('Wireless') cap 411 hw 3 ch 1

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: trying to associate

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: IOPCCard debug: HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=3

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: Sending RXON

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * without RXON_FILTER_ASSOC_MSK

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * channel = 1

Apr 8 13:05:31 kirill-s-marinins-macpro31 kernel[0]: * bssid = 02:13:d4:ff:c1:eb