From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 10:16:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01F916A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd7mo2no.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo2no.cg.shawcable.net [64.59.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD2543D2D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesearl@shaw.ca) Received: from pd7mr3no.prod.shaw.ca (pd7mr3no-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.144.130]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTN008K8JD7OY@l-daemon> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:00:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from shaw.ca ([10.0.145.133]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTN00JPPJD7T4@l-daemon> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:00:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.144.81] by pd7ims1.prod.shaw.ca (mshttpd); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:00:43 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:00:43 -0700 From: James Earl To: "Sonny T. Larsen" Message-id: <6b37d96b8185.6b81856b37d9@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timeout from an with Cisco Aironet MPI350 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:16:38 -0000 From: "Sonny T. Larsen" Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:56 am Subject: Timeout from an with Cisco Aironet MPI350 > Hey, > > I am running 4.9-STABLE on my new IBM T40, and I just put in a Cisco > Aironet MPI350-card, since I have used regular 350 cards with the an > driver with excellent results over the last year or so. > > The problem is, that although the card seems to be identified > correctly,and I am able to ifconfig the interface, I am getting a > lot of timeouts > from the an driver. > > Performance is very low, and the machine more or less freezes up when > the timeouts happen. > > I have collected a bit of info below: > Any ideas? > > I saw somebody mention, that maybe downgrading the firmware on the > cardwould help - although I am willing to find a colleague with a > windows-box to do this, I am somewhat perplexed. > > It does look more like a driver-problem to me - and the suggested > firmware (5.0001) is very old indeed. > > TIA, Are you not running 5.00.01 firmware? Unless something has changed, the newer firmware doesn't work with the an driver right now. James