From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 19:38:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 1158F16A420 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:38:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D4443D45 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:38:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.199] ([10.0.0.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k1IJc7o7032665 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43F777A0.4080405@errno.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:38:08 -0800 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregers Petersen References: <43F755CB.5000607@jetnet.co.uk> <43F75F3C.9050404@cbs.dk> In-Reply-To: <43F75F3C.9050404@cbs.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Reid , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi failing after portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:38:15 -0000 Gregers Petersen wrote: > David Reid wrote: >> Did a portupgrade last night and now my iwi card works only >> intermittently, if at all. Error log shows a LOT of >> >> "unknown notification type 15" >> >> The card had been working fine for the last 3 months until the >> portupgrade decided to update the iwi-firmware. Any ideas? >> > > The notification you mentions has had quite a bit of attention on the > 'iwi' homesite discussionforum - it seems to be a problem in > relationship with the porting onto the FreeBSD platform .. supposedly > the most recent iwi-firmware edition should have taken care of the problem. > I had until a few days ago the same notifications - but then I > re-compiled my system and kernel from 6-Release to 6-Stable (6.1 > Prerelease #2 of the 14. of February) + included the iwi-module with the > most recent firmware in the kernel. The 'Type 15' has dissapered and the > whole setup is 100% stable ... it is my impression that if you load > 'iwi' as a module things are less stable (especially when it comes to > initial connection with an AP) - but this is not scientifically proven, > just a personal subjective experience :-) Notification msg 15 means the card is telling the host the "link quality" is deteriorating. The reason you don't see it after upgrading is the author recently removed the message from the driver. Sam