Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:16:20 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Subject: Re: New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers Message-ID: <44182FC4.7050200@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200603150712.32783.satyam@sklinks.com> References: <200603052102.24881.max@love2party.net> <200603150712.32783.satyam@sklinks.com>
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Joseph Vella wrote: > On Sunday 05 March 2006 12:02, Max Laier wrote: >> All, >> >> there have been a lot of problem reports with iwi(4) lately. Can everybody >> who does have problems with it please take a look at: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/ >> >> There is a new version of the driver (converted to use firmware(9)). It >> includes some fundamental changes that greatly help stability and >> performance. There are, however, still some instabilities with it. >> >> I'd appreciate if you could give it a try and report back. If it breaks >> (device timeout, connection stall, etc. ...) you could help us a great deal >> if you set "sysctl debug.iwi=3" and include the console output at the time > of >> the failure. If you don't see something interesting there, you might want > to >> increase debug.iwi even further, but that will be *very* chatty. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> -- > > How do you tell which firmware you have? > (just to double check, this would be for my Intel 2915 right?) > There is no tool presently to dump the firmware rev. The driver will reject any unsuitable firwmare image it can detect. Yes it will work on a 2915. Sam
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