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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ipw status (was: wireless)
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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