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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:00:43 -0700
From:      James Earl <jamesearl@shaw.ca>
To:        "Sonny T. Larsen" <sonny@unix.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Timeout from an with Cisco Aironet MPI350
Message-ID:  <6b37d96b8185.6b81856b37d9@shaw.ca>

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From: "Sonny T. Larsen" <sonny@unix.dk>
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:
<snip>
> 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,

Are you not running 5.00.01 firmware?  Unless something has changed, the newer firmware doesn't work with the an driver right now.

James




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