From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 12:29:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7272916A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:29:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6807143D2D for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:29:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBBKTZ5h008947; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:29:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:26:47 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20031211.132647.55844740.imp@bsdimp.com> To: oberman@es.net From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20031211182330.0D26C5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20031211182330.0D26C5D04@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I think I wounded by Prism card X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:29:43 -0000 In message: <20031211182330.0D26C5D04@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes: : : I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 running CURRENT as of 12/9/03. On that day I : also updated the firmware on my WiFi card from 1.3.6 to 1.4.9 and my : troubles began. My wireless card starts and associated normally and runs : fine until I start a large transfer (such as an scp of a file of a MB or : so). Then I get the dreaded: : wi0: timeout in wi_cmd -x010b; event status 0x8000 That sucks. I assume no other wi messages before that? And that the - is really a 0 and you typed it in by hand. Was this under heavy load? : At this point the card is dead and I have only been able to recover by : rebooting the system. damn. : I will try backing out the recent changes to if_wi : and rebuild the module ASAP, but I only have wireless available at home, : so that won't be until tonight. I wish I'd seen this earlier, I just committed something to releng_5_2. You might try hard wiring it or something similar. : First, any idea as to whether the recent fixes to wi to correct timeouts : in old firmware versions might have caused this? Or is it a problem with : 1.4 firmware? If it is the firmware, is there any place to find the old : firmware to back it off? http://www.netgate.com/ has old images. : wi0: mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 : wi0: 802.11 address 00:05:3c:02:43:2d : wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) : wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9) : wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps This should be a fairly good card to have. Warner