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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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