From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 18:21:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 B734116A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:21:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946AE43D68 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3F7BFB2; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17427-07; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930FCBFB1; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:21:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72C13D3B; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:21:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Jordan Sissel Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:21:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43301AE5.12781.A348E06@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <5ad23a3005092011135b6627c7@mail.gmail.com> References: <432FC936.29872.8F579D2@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: psionic@gmail.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone got ipw working without freezing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:21:32 -0000 On 20 Sep 2005 at 14:13, Jordan Sissel wrote: > On 9/20/05, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > On 20 Sep 2005 at 0:39, Jordan Sissel wrote: > > > Thinkpad T41 > > > Yes, it freezes. Usually when there's lots of packets flying around. > > > Running 6.0-CURRENT from mid July aswell as 5.4-RELEASE > > > > > > It's very irritating. I usually just use ndis instead because it is > > stable > > > under 5.4-R > > > > I have the same laptop. My observations are similar to yours. > > > > I have been thinking of going back to ndis. > > > > In fact, I don't ever recall IPW being stable in any revision since the > project began. It was stable in 4.* after some patches to address the freezing issue. > Now that it's in base, it's still not stable on my T41. I'd > put more effort into testing/debugging but I haven't had time or energy. > > Certainly Dan and I aren't the only ones having this issue? This issue being > instability and locking up when there's high traffic levels. I can test patches. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/