From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 11: 7:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3555B37B405 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lutetium.btinternet.com (lutetium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDFE43F1E for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:07:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from host217-35-35-31.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.35.35.31] helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by lutetium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #16) id 18Wi1J-0006Sd-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:07:13 +0000 Received: from waynep by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18WiB0-000AU5-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:17:14 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cisco Aironet PCI card - Working but Flaky Date: 09 Jan 2003 19:17:14 +0000 Message-ID: <86n0mauo91.fsf@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 49 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I've tried the Cisco wireless card and it works to a point. I've used ifconfig to configure the an0 device, and it manages to join the network. However, I'm having problems with the speed. When I first tried using the if_an.ko module, I got the following in my messages file: Jan 9 18:32:11 ford /kernel: an0: port 0x9400-0x943f,0x9000-0x907f mem 0xde000000-0xde00007f irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0 Jan 9 18:32:11 ford /kernel: an0: Ethernet address: 00:40:96:5a:17:97 Jan 9 18:32:11 ford /kernel: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 The sio1 message happened every time I loaded the module, even though I don't have a com2 port (disabled in bios). I then compiled the an driver into the kernel and tried again. The sio1 message went away, but I was still having horrifically slow ping times to another machine on the network (anywhere from 400ms to 1000ms). I was also getting frequent an0: device timeout messages and I would have to reinit the device before it would work again. I checked IRQ's and it was sharing an IRQ with my USB device. I then installed my ethernet card back into the system and now the Aironet gets an IRQ of 12 (shared with sound card). Ping times and packet loss are now _marginally_ better, but I'm still seeing anywhere between 32 and 243 ms ping response times 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=61.749 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=243.926 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=16.505 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=83.430 ms I've moved these machines quite close together and abaout a room apart yet it makes no difference. Any advice on troubleshooting this would be _much_ appreciated. Regards, -- - Wayne Pascoe Wageslaves - Who do you want to make rich today? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message