From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 11 10:59:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [216.187.105.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A7E37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6508A3F0E; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:59:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Brooks Davis Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:59:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: wi0 problems under latest STABLE Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20020311105627.A9391@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020311182959.9E2863F0E@bast.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:29:58PM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-Id: <20020311185911.6508A3F0E@bast.unixathome.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Mar 2002 at 10:56, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:29:58PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > I have tried this: > > > > #define WI_DELAY 100 > > #define WI_TIMEOUT (1000000/WI_DELAY) > > > > I am using a desktop and a laptop, each with wireless cards. The desktop > > acts a DHCP server and gateway for the laptop. > > > > Both machines get the "wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 11; event status 8000" > > message. Both have the above settings compiled into the kernel. > > > > Is there a way I can confirm those settings or adjust them at run time? > > At this point there isn't. I I'm going to have to rethink handling this > problem. It appears that WI_TIMEOUT is actually too long (it hangs the > machine for WI_TIMEOUT*WI_DELAY if the command doesn't return). > Additionaly, it appears that some cards are just broken and we need to find > a way to deal with them. Feel free to direct patches to me and I will try them. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message