From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 10:04:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2330716A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd8mo1no.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo2no.cg.shawcable.net [64.59.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B2B43D3F for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesearl@shaw.ca) Received: from pd7mr4no.prod.shaw.ca (pd7mr4no-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.144.131]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTN0042RIQPSB@l-daemon> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:47:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from shaw.ca ([10.0.145.133]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTN007O8IQP36@l-daemon> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:47:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.144.81] by pd7ims1.prod.shaw.ca (mshttpd); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:47:13 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:47:13 -0700 From: James Earl To: "Sonny T. Larsen" Message-id: <6ae1e26ae960.6ae9606ae1e2@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timeout from an with Cisco Aironet MPI350 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:04:29 -0000 Hi, What happens when you use the 4.9-RELEASE an driver? When I try going from 4.9-RELEASE to 4.9-STABLE with my R40 and MPI350 I don't get timeouts, but I do get failed to read RID messages... James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny T. Larsen" Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:56 am Subject: Timeout from an with Cisco Aironet MPI350 > Hey, > > I am running 4.9-STABLE on my new IBM T40, and I just put in a Cisco > Aironet MPI350-card, since I have used regular 350 cards with the an > driver with excellent results over the last year or so. > > The problem is, that although the card seems to be identified > correctly,and I am able to ifconfig the interface, I am getting a > lot of timeouts > from the an driver. > > Performance is very low, and the machine more or less freezes up when > the timeouts happen. > > I have collected a bit of info below: > > uname -a: > FreeBSD narya.staff.tdk.net 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Mon > Feb 23 > 13:38:28 CET 2004 > sonny@narya.staff.tdk.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NARYA i386 > > >From dmesg: > > an0: port 0x8000-0x80ff mem 0xc0400000- > 0xc07fffff,0xc0200000-0xc0203fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 > an0: got RSSI <-> dBM map > an0: Ethernet address: 00:02:8a:dc:90:83 > > Feb 25 12:19:59 narya /kernel: an0: device timeout > Feb 25 12:20:33 narya last message repeated 5 times > Feb 25 12:21:33 narya last message repeated 9 times > > > This is the output from a ping (10.253.0.1 is a box on the same > network): > > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.156 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=4758.609 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=3749.048 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=2739.507 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=1729.866 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=998.952 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=4766.989 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=3759.227 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=2749.646 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=1740.125 ms > > For comparison, here is a ping done from the laptop, but using a > different card (with the wi-driver): > > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=7.482 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.290 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=3.153 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=2.997 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3.965 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=4.122 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=3.702 ms > 64 bytes from 10.253.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=3.048 ms > > In short, packet-loss, timeouts and very bad performance with the > an-driver - strange, since it works nicely with a regular Cisco-card > (AIR-PCM352). > > Any ideas? > > I saw somebody mention, that maybe downgrading the firmware on the > cardwould help - although I am willing to find a colleague with a > windows-box to do this, I am somewhat perplexed. > > It does look more like a driver-problem to me - and the suggested > firmware (5.0001) is very old indeed. > > TIA, > > -- > Bye, Sonny! > > "Respect is fine, but actually I've always wanted to be feared." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"