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Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:13:56 +0200
From:      "Nicolai Petri (lists)" <lists@petri.cc>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: wireless
Message-ID:  <467ED084.4000002@petri.cc>
In-Reply-To: <4678B1E4.7080909@errno.com>
References:  <20070619011908.GA53748@heff.fud.org.nz>	<20070620042023.GA17424@nowhere> <4678B1E4.7080909@errno.com>

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>> In short, ipw doesn't seem to work at all for me anymore.  It worked
>> okay in 6-stable with an occasional hiccup, but upon upgrading to
>> current it doesn't seem to be doing anything.  It doesn't even try to
>> scan; it just sits there on channel 1 with "no carrier".  "ifconfig list
>> scan" shows nothing.  Manually setting the SSID/channel doesn't do
>> anything either (it remains on channel 1).
>>
>> Sometimes "ifconfig scan" does nothing, sometimes it results in a panic.
> 
> I'm not sure how well ipw got tested while the changes were in p4.
> We'll need to test again now that code has been merged to CVS.  I'll try
> to look at this weekend if noone else beats me to it.
> 
> 	Sam
Hi Sam,

Apparently the ipw stuff has very severe problems (read is useless) on 
my machine - it worked perfect before the p4 merge and now it cannot 
associate to my unencrypted 802.11b network. I have all the required 
modules loaded and I can do an "InstaPanic" by doing ifconfig ipw0 scan 
or ifconfig ipw0 chanlist 1-11.
The latter example I'm not sure is a valid option but it should 
definately not result in a instant panic().
I tried a backtrace on my kernel dump but it seemed messed up and useless.

If you have any patches I can test them out if needed.

I'm running -current from following time : Thu Jun 20

Best regards,
Nicolai Petri






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