From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Mar 19 16:49:27 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58473106566C;
	Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:49:27 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de)
Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE958FC13;
	Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:49:26 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de)
Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (vpn-cl-160-76.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
	[141.3.160.76])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCDC405BFF;
	Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:49:25 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <47E14414.9050105@bsdforen.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:49:24 +0100
From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080310)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
References: <20080306000919.GA11073@heff.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20080306000919.GA11073@heff.fud.org.nz>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Intel 3945 (wpi) patch
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:49:27 -0000

Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Here is a patch for wpi(4) which should help with the stability of the
> driver. If you have been having problems then please give it a try and
> report back. Some people have reported problems getting wpa_supplicant
> to authenticate which may not be fixed, give it a try anyway.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_head.diff
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff
> 
> This includes work by Sam Leffler and Benjamin Close.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Andrew

I am running the patched driver for two weeks and it appears to be very 
stable. The connection persists even with very bad signal quality. If the 
signal is interrupted only once in my university, I have to wait for half an 
hour before I'm allowed to reconnect into the VPN. This has not happened 
during the last couple of hours, even though the connection quality is 5:0 at 
the moment. Which is /very/, /very/ bad.