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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:22:33 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Boston <cb@severious.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ipw status (was: wireless)
Message-ID:  <20071003172233.GH38352@heff.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20071003132612.GA39864@nowhere>
References:  <20070619011908.GA53748@heff.fud.org.nz> <20070620042023.GA17424@nowhere> <4678B1E4.7080909@errno.com> <467ED084.4000002@petri.cc> <46A484CA.8030805@petri.cc> <20070723114821.GA6575@heff.fud.org.nz> <46A84F36.8080309@petri.cc> <20071001203030.GB16919@heff.fud.org.nz> <20071003132612.GA39864@nowhere>

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On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:26:12AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:30:30AM +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > Thanks for the report, attached is an updated patch for ipw(4) that
> > seems to work very well. Please give it a spin.
> 
> Managed to get this compiled yesterday and had a chance to do some
> testing last night.
> 
> It does seem to be a bit better then the previous patch -- the interface
> comes up and associates automatically on boot now.  Previously it would
> be up and scanning but never find anything until I restarted
> wpa_supplicant.
> 
> It does still randomly stop working after a couple hours though.  It
> will still show "up" and associated with the AP, but no packets get
> through until I down/up the interface.  Sometimes have to cycle it
> twice.  It may last a little longer than the previous patch before it
> dies, but I'm not 100% sure.
> 
> Is that a known issue or should I start enabling debug flags?

Can you please set 'sysctl debug.ipw=3' and 'wlandebug -i ipw0 +scan'
which should show what its doing.

Thanks for testing.


Andrew



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