From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 05:07:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAD116A49A for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 05:07:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manfred.lotz@arcor.de) Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD1543D7B for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 05:07:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from manfred.lotz@arcor.de) Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B8B1EAF38; Tue, 16 May 2006 07:07:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92FD1A892C; Tue, 16 May 2006 07:07:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hermes.sanskrit.local.net (dslb-084-058-039-164.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.58.39.164]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D2DDDEF3; Tue, 16 May 2006 07:07:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.sanskrit.local.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with SMTP id k4G57nBk047554; Tue, 16 May 2006 07:07:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from manfred.lotz@arcor.de) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:07:44 +0200 From: Manfred Lotz To: "Max Laier" Message-Id: <20060516070744.151b7360.manfred.lotz@arcor.de> In-Reply-To: <55782.192.168.4.1.1147735378.squirrel@mail.abi01.homeunix.org> References: <20060515215318.835ef697.manfred.lotz@arcor.de> <55782.192.168.4.1.1147735378.squirrel@mail.abi01.homeunix.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi-firmware-kmod and iwi-firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 05:08:04 -0000 Hi Max, Thanks for your reply. On Tue, 16 May 2006 01:22:58 +0200 (CEST) "Max Laier" wrote: ... > > I know how to use iwi-firmware but how does iwi.firmware-kmod > > relate? > > > > > > Currently, iwi-firmware is quite unreliable in the sense that after > > resuming my laptop and restarting wpa_supplicant I often get panics. > > Newer versions of the iwi(4) driver require you to use > iwi-firmware-kmod (iwi-firmware won't work anymore). Those drivers > utilize the firmware(9) framework to load the firmware. Together > with other changes (at this time only available in CURRENT) this > makes iwi(4) much more stable. You should be able to use > sys/dev/iwi/* from CURRENT in RELENG_6 to get the changes. MFC is > planed, but more testing is required and encouraged. > Ok, I'm running 6.1 STABLE and I copied over from sys/dev/iwi/* Do I still need iwi-firmware in order to run iwi-firmware-kmod or can the kernel modules iwi_bass and firmware be used independently? If so I'm wondering how to specify the connection parameter which are now in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. -- Manfred