Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:59:18 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/wi if_wi.c if_wivar.h Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10303172349500.8595-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030317.214758.15267389.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10303172322460.3301-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> > Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> writes: > : Thanks! BTW, I can't verify that this completely works with > : the DWL-650H yet, but at least I can ifconfig/dhclient it with > : this commit. > > dhclient? You are doing a little better than me with my symbol > cards. Well, I can _run_ dhclient, but it never gets a lease. I don't think anything is being seen/sent on the network. But running it doesn't hang and crash the kernel, which is what it did before. > : I'm waiting for another card to come in to replace my > : (hopefully) bad one. I'll follow up privately after I get > : the new one. > > I can verify that it doesn't work well. Sometimes I can get traffic > through, usually dhclient buys the farm, the card hangs and much pain > and suffering follows. Hmm, mine doesn't hang -- I can interrupt it just fine. I suspect my card is bad because I can't even get it to work from Windows. Hmm, is it possible that the firmware that the (FreeBSD) driver loads is wrong for that particular card? Maybe it doesn't need firmware downloaded to it, and doing so made it work incorrectly in Windows as well. Just grasping at straws... > But that was better than w/o the patch :-) Yup. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message
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