Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:06:20 +0200 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IWN (Centrino 1000) Message-ID: <201105190806.20750.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4DD430BF.6090203@gmail.com> References: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com> <201105180907.02923.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <4DD430BF.6090203@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 22:49:03 you wrote: > On 05/18/11 00:07, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > Care to explain why it is "better" then the Intel 1000? I'm not > > aware of any issues, if there are some, I want to know about that > > so I can actually have a look at it.. > > About half as many networks are seen in FreeBSD compared to Windows > (perhaps sensitivity? antenna config?). IWN drops WPA2 connections after > a while (not consistent). Once in a blue moon the actual driver goes > wonky and I get an exciting tx ringbuf etc printout. > > Of course this is all hearsay and voodoo without logs, so I will try to > reproduce these issues and post them. Please do that. The "tx ringbuf printout" is probably a firmware error, those are really hard to debug without access to the fw sources.. so, try to get as much info as possible. Ideally with a way to reproduce it. > Also, is the lack of ibss/ahdemo support due to firmware bugs? I noticed > ibss is commented out in the module source. Wouldn't ahdemo at least be > somewhat similar to monitor mode? IBSS/ahdemo mode is at least missing one thing, support for multiple stations. I've been poked by various people about it.. guess it's time to have a closer look at it. -- Bernhard
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