Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:18:49 +1200 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> To: "Nicolai Petri (lists)" <lists@petri.cc> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org>, Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> Subject: Re: wireless Message-ID: <20070624221849.GC4890@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <467ED084.4000002@petri.cc> References: <20070619011908.GA53748@heff.fud.org.nz> <20070620042023.GA17424@nowhere> <4678B1E4.7080909@errno.com> <467ED084.4000002@petri.cc>
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 10:13:56PM +0200, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote: > > >>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 have an ipw card ready to test and will be sorting this out in the next few days. I am just updating iwi and unfortunately only have one minipci slot. I will forward patches for testing when they are ready. cheers, Andrew
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