From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 2 19: 2:37 2003 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 1A4C837B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gibson.acpub.duke.edu (gibson.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF9243FAF for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cscotts@mindspring.com) Received: from atevi.dyndns.org (res-152-16-222-204.dorm.duke.edu [152.16.222.204]) by gibson.acpub.duke.edu (8.11.5/8.11.3/Duke-5.0.0) with ESMTP id h2331P211378; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:01:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from stark (res-152-16-238-96.dorm.duke.edu [152.16.238.96]) by atevi.dyndns.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h2331OTU000718; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:01:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cscotts@mindspring.com) Message-ID: <003201c2e131$2cf499f0$60ee1098@stark> From: "Scott Sipe" To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: References: <20030301010414.A2061@freebie.xs4all.nl><20030228.233918.102935668.imp@bsdimp.com><003401c2e0f1$0d0903f0$60ee1098@stark> <20030302.130135.58854118.imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: wi polling (Firmware update?) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:01:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-12.9 required=5.0 tests=ORIGINAL_MESSAGE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter, Duke University (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I AM getting: Mar 2 21:51:46 atevi kernel: wi0: tx failed, retry limit exceeded Mar 2 21:53:28 atevi kernel: wi0: tx failed, retry limit exceeded Mar 2 21:56:48 atevi kernel: wi0: tx failed, retry limit exceeded Mar 2 21:57:31 atevi kernel: wi0: tx failed, retry limit exceeded Mar 2 21:57:32 atevi kernel: wi0: tx failed, retry limit exceeded once I set hw.wi.txerate to -1. Is this bad? I just recently (today) started having trouble communicating between my osx mac and Freebsd AP. I don't use wireless terribly often, so I'm not sure how long it's been like--it was definitely working faster and fine >2 weeks ago (I've built world a couple times since then [running current]). I'm getting lots of packet loss doing pings, and file transfers are ~100KB/s thanks much, Scott uname -a FreeBSD atevi.dyndns.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Fri Feb 28 16:29:38 EST 2003 root@atevi.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATEVI i386 ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Warner Losh" To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:01 PM Subject: Re: wi polling (Firmware update?) > In message: <003401c2e0f1$0d0903f0$60ee1098@stark> > "Scott Sipe" writes: > : Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I have a Netgear MA311 PCI card, > : Prism 2.5 > : > : wi0: mem 0xef000000-0xef000fff at device 16.0 on pci0 > : wi0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:12:05:17 > : wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) > : wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.7), Station (1.3.6) > : wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > : ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold > : > : Should I try to update the station firmware? I'm not sure how to do this. > > 1.3.6 should be good. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message