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Subject: Re: Poor performance w/Intel 2200BG (iwi) on FreeBSD 9.2
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
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On 29 March 2014 12:40, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I exposed the iwi statistics messages but for some odd reason I
> actually get garbage statistics. The linux driver only looks at two
> fields (which are correctly filled out) but the rest of the fields
> aren't filled out.
>
> I'm not yet sure why.

Yeah, I don't quite yet know why I'm getting a firmware notification
that is big enough to have all the right statistics fields but doesn't
actually fill them out. But it's intel hardware; I have no firmware
source, no firmware documentation and no real help from Intel. :-)

Sorry!

-a