From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 5 10:39:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB680106568B for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@chronos.org.uk) Received: from chronos.org.uk (chronos-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:12b::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406588FC2C for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from workstation1.localnet (workstation1.local.chronos.org.uk [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:12b::20]) (authenticated bits=0) by chronos.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n95AdidS070915 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:39:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matt@chronos.org.uk) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 chronos.org.uk n95AdidS070915 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=chronos.org.uk; s=mail; t=1254739185; bh=kuUFa+rRp6jEx3RRd5J0N2n9X+KFsX6zJJoF72E1gv4=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Cc:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=BffZkogTsdIzcDvLfPFJk2noDCJwmIqA6O7MuvaQMj7lfFV44lGiE3ql/1M4uFXWF i9i4z8pyb5s0kT2wraCTmrzD07yTsYulutVAGxdmtAJ6VmXxJf4A+EoucR6JY3pAHB cAgrrcTyzYmWXmeWLpDTz+F5vqPrmniiNiLJKOuc= From: Matt Dawson To: Sam Leffler Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:39:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-RELEASE-p4; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <200910021726.33663.matt@chronos.org.uk> <200910032240.45357.matt@chronos.org.uk> <4AC92F94.4020106@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC92F94.4020106@errno.com> X-Face: Uq{{&_!oO{M&ydj?-f%{D]bN7/|/]a+utod35[+IyH#R>F~YPffK,=?utf-8?q?=25=60=7D=25=0A?=FTMbmzo,]0X3K:N&{h7],FI{?EkORzB; f:V3"vKXsUNw5Yh`}ef4MZ*a4,=?utf-8?q?ObuJ=5F=26=5B1S=27zP=5CK0wcKZP=0A?==?utf-8?q?_=60=23L=25=5Dq*OUPQ-4T=3FHZ=7EAKX0=7D3W=25o=3DP?= X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (chronos.org.uk [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:12b::1]); Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:39:45 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at central.local.chronos.org.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DATE_IN_FUTURE_48_96,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on central.local.chronos.org.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ral(4) on 8-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:39:59 -0000 On Monday 05 Oct 2009 00:28:20 you wrote: > maxpower are expressed as dBm. Thanks for that and the pointers to get the channels right. A temporary hack in net80211 was trivial and I can take my time with the ral end of things. I believe Kip Macy was the last to look at ral in-depth, around the time support was added for gen 2 chipset, although I can't seem to find the code that was in p4 at that time. It was a while ago... > I had problems w/ the iwi firmware on 64-bit so set the build to i386 > only. The problems I had were relocation errors and noone could help; > if those are gone then building the fw image for amd64 should be fine. > Whether the driver works is another matter... The iwi driver seems to work for normal operation with the caveat that 802.11s is never going to work, but that's noted on the wiki anyway. I haven't been able to get Kismet to work (it used to on i386 on the iwi) although that may be down to PEBKAC in not fully understanding the 802.11 architectural changes in 8. I'll hammer the thing for a few more days, see if I can find any regression tests to apply to this setup and maybe move it to a different machine to ensure it works in multiple environments. This is, however, exactly the same hardware that failed to work with 7.1 amd64, so I'm pretty confident that it should be consistent. I'm torn between decent support for most things on ral and dual band and a more sensitive radio, to the order of around 5dB in the same location, on iwi. I'm tempted to just get an Atheros a/b/g card and be done with it. Oxford Tech have some AR5414/AR5006XS cards for reasonable money. Thanks for your help, Sam. Best regards, -- Matt Dawson MTD15-RIPE