From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 07:28:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE7337B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5879F43F3F for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6GESAeI058569; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:28:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200307161428.h6GESAeI058569@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030716140115.GB652@buffy.brucec.backnet> To: Bruce Cran Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:28:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errors using wi driver in -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:28:15 -0000 It seems Bruce Cran wrote: Just to chime in here, I've spent 2 weeks of various trial and errors to get two Lucent Wavelan's (one 4.8, one -current) to talk to each other. Dispite my more or less futile experiments this would not work no matter what (even asking on -mobile and trying what came up there didn't help). Since I can use the cards perfectly between two 4.8 boxes (and have been for about 2 years), my take is that the wi driver in -current is borked useless, at least for some cards (It worked in 5.0 but broke on the way to 5.1 IIRC). just my .01 EUR... > I've just reinstalled a 'desktop server' from FreeBSD 4.8 to -CURRENT, and > am finding quite a few problems with the 802.11b driver. I'm trying to use > it as a access point, so I've tried setting the flag0,adhoc mediaopt, since > ibss-master which I had used under 4.8 didn't work. This appeared to work, > but other computers couldn't connect. Now, using just 'adhoc' other > computers can connect, but whenever any use the network, the rate shown in > 'ifconfig wi0' drops to 2MBit/s and I only get about 100KB/s bandwidth. Also, > whenever I try to reset the media and/or mediaopt settings using eg > 'ifconfig wi0 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc', the driver or card seems > to go a bit buggy, with messages like: > > wi0: bad alloc 2f2 != 1f7, cur 0 nxt 0 > wi0: device timeout > wi0: device timeout > wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0021; event status 0x0008 > > when I run 'ifconfig' wi0 output stalls for a few seconds, locking the system, > while another kernel error message appears. I'm using the card with a > PCI converter card, and the card itself is: > > wi0: at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on > pccard0 > wi0: 802.11 address: 00:01:02:03:04:05 > wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE > wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (8.36.1) > wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > > on initial configuration, the Media line of ifconfig is: > > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps (none) > > when I was recently getting ~35KB/s to the card, the 'OACTIVE' flag on the > interface was set. > > I can provide more information which can help in diagnosing the problem, if > required. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -Søren