Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:49:53 +0200 From: Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "scan stuck" with if_iwi(4) Message-ID: <20060721064953.GC4607@osgiliath.brixandersen.dk> In-Reply-To: <44C00B40.2010901@errno.com> References: <20060720224632.GB31459@osgiliath.brixandersen.dk> <44C00B40.2010901@errno.com>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:01:20PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> You will not be able to reproduce the problem because the code in 6.1R
> ignored beacon misses (and a lot of other things).
I see.
> The stuck scan is not fatal; the driver just resets the card. It's
> caused by a firwmare problem that I never got around to dealing with
> ('cuz it wouldn't change the overall operation of the driver).
Well, losing the connection for 30 seconds every 3 minutes is rather
annoying - if not fatal.
> The basic problem is your card is losing sync w/ the ap. I don't know
> what the local conditions are but I've seen this a lot w/ iwi; there's
> nothing we can do in the driver if you want to be able to roam.
The problem should be solvable in software - the Linux ipw2200 driver
doesn't have these problems when using the same AP.
Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>
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