From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 10 18:15:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6C5106568E for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stringflow@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f227.google.com (mail-ew0-f227.google.com [209.85.219.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D63F8FC15 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stringflow@gmail.com) Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so374076ewy.43 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:15:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=TNS80TMrwvvmIbj2dr6xIJtjYgW+d/q3RAgGWLvjMWE=; b=Wbj+dHqbetJJnCMPwvLdpezJTF+/Klo5Vomk3tC1gHreibO5OixMzFPos6r19Y7KIU NdOGA1fCJh50pe3TIfSuSqYprMWf2IcVJfGohMjusb/wjeJAhfPYg4hD4haYG+AJcBMa 9C0jadjNBZ/wQuY+v0M2NaCkKUaxgqIUiiLTM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=fZf71IDqB0eIOMDRbAWnwAj9MrEpIOj9ljqVmfu1o4vA6s4ioVa048e7TkNkWKlTth 3H7wys3JZrBeN+JkOC6ekCOa+iJ2qOB/j6Gj7hd5GPicXgih7Wxc/WI1L2aZzSWEwAjA wDiWSgrgDyZH1kaRwCveuNqphnkAz23OiMC/A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.43.11 with SMTP id q11mr1573082ebq.15.1247249722581; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:15:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A5777F6.5040700@freebsd.org> References: <4A5777F6.5040700@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:15:22 +0800 Message-ID: From: kevin To: Sam Leffler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About iwn firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:15:25 -0000 On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Sam Leffler wrote: > kevin wrote: > >> Hi, >> I notice iwn's firmware hasn't been updated for a long time.Is there any >> plan to import newer version iwn firmware ? current version is >> iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17 in the source tree, while latest version is >> iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.61.2.24. >> >> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads&f=ucodes_4965 >> >> > Not sure why you want newer firmware. If it's for newer chip support then > that requires driver changes and is non-trivial. > > Sam > > iwn driver works well when system up.but it is not so robust.it will stop transfer data and throw some errors in these conditions: 1 . mount nfs via wireless network,if i transfer a lot of data.it may stop receiving data after some time. 2 . wireless network is busy, then some one reboot the wireless AP.it may throw some errors and stop working. 3 . Find wireless network works slow and switch to Ethernet,.if try /etc/rc.d/netif restart, it may throw some errors and stop working. all these are fixed by reboot system(reload iwn and iwnfw dose not work at most time). i also find iwn driver printe a lot of microcode error related messages when it failed(not easy to reproduce it). No official Change Log, i just notice the *description *in gentoo bug#202818. Thanks, Kevin