From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 07:53:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F131065670 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 07:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bw0-f44.google.com (mail-bw0-f44.google.com [209.85.214.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF748FC21 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 07:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so3585385bwz.17 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 00:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.82.74 with SMTP id a10mr2657945bkl.96.1305785255236; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B2ECB85.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.46.203.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u15sm1393037bkf.16.2011.05.18.23.07.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 May 2011 23:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:06:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-31-generic; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) References: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com> <201105180907.02923.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <4DD430BF.6090203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD430BF.6090203@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105190806.20750.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Cc: Subject: Re: IWN (Centrino 1000) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:53:35 -0000 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