From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 10:34:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C76437B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.zen.co.uk (parmenides.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46FCD43FF5 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@robhulme.com) Received: (qmail 18782 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2003 17:34:09 -0000 Received: from protagoras.zen.co.uk (212.23.8.61) by parmenides.zen.co.uk with QMQP; 23 Jun 2003 17:34:09 -0000 Received: from dsl-217-155-17-94.zen.co.uk (HELO hal9000) (217.155.17.94) by protagoras.zen.co.uk with SMTP; 23 Jun 2003 17:34:09 -0000 X-Zen-Trace: 217.155.17.94 From: "Robert Hulme" To: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:34:00 +0100 Message-ID: <001d01c339ad$a4cd9dd0$0b07a8c0@hal9000> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 11.0.4920 In-Reply-To: <20030623162611.GA54473@dragon.nuxi.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Problem with wi in CURRENT (and 5.1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:34:12 -0000 I am already running the latest firmware, and it works in 5.0 but not in 5.1 or 5-CURRENT. Is anyone going to take a look at this? It seems that wi is broken for a significant number of people (there have been several emails like mine recently to current and mobile) in 5.1+ -Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David O'Brien > Sent: 23 June 2003 17:26 > To: Robert Hulme > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:48:13AM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote: > > I'm having some problems with wi in 5-CURRENT and 5.1 in general. > > I'm using a Proxim Skyline 802.11b PC Card (which I believe > uses the > > Prism 2 chipset). The PC Card is using the 0.3.0 primary and 0.8.3 > > secondary firmware (which I believe is the latest). I have a Dell > > Inspiron 8200. > > > > The card works fine in Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.0, but in > 5.1 if I use > > ifconfig to bring up the card (for example during boot) it locks my > > laptop up for about a minute while I get loads of error messages > > appear on screen. Eventually I get a 'init failed' and 'tx buffer > > allocation failed (error 12)' error, and although ifconfig says the > > interface is up it doesn't actually work. > > See if there isn't updated firmware for your card. Rumor has > it the MS-Windows driver uploads the latest firmware version > into the RAM on the card. > > For Lucent cards you want any versoin 8 firmware from > http://www.expressresponse.com/cgi-bin/proxim02/showFaq.cgi?se > ssion_id=1055265419.6837.7&type=&product=Client_Product > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >