From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 10:40:08 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 112621065670 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 10:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDFB8FC13 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 10:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from janh.freebsd (e177246151.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.177.246.151]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML25U-1LVkbN2ABG-0000HC; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:57 +0100 Message-ID: <498D64FC.2040509@janh.de> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:56 +0100 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: L Campbell References: 792298050902061403o5adc52ddx3b6a476a78e5c230@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19tDWu/8oQ49tbjeZx9G+EnnDW36JeJzKPxzfn faUvo5JAul2hwlNTBGpW9XDTLWpT7JfXvMWJXOCp/L/dcr0wtk 5JLGsisACkaa7ajXq4zyg== X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:45:02 +0000 Cc: current-list freebsd Subject: Re: iwi broken? reproducible crash :( 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:40:08 -0000 L Campbell wrote: > Since you're offering -- back on 7.x I had all kinds of problem with > the adapter: I had to double the send/recvbuf_max and had to disable > bgscan, otherwise the connection would die after ~6-12 hours, > depending on usage. Did you ever have similar issues, or is something > wonky with my machine? With iwi on 7.0, my connections would die regularly, too -- much more often than the 6 to 12 hours you state, sometimes up to every 15 minutes or so. wpa_supplicant did reconnect, but without it, I would have to do it manually. It was still better than at 6.X, though, except for monitor mode, which would not receive packages on 7.0 at all. Worst, sometimes the driver would get stuck, but the firmware could not be reloaded, since there was not enough dmaable (?) memory. Closing all application did help. Since it took too much time to work around the problems and I wanted monitor, I got a 5 Euro ath based mini-pci from Ebay. I can only recommend that. Cheers, Jan Henrik