From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 21 06:49:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5B016A4DF for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:49:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henrik@brixandersen.dk) Received: from ns2.pil.dk (ns2.pil.dk [195.41.47.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B87A43D62 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:49:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik@brixandersen.dk) Received: from osgiliath.brixandersen.dk (osgiliath.brixandersen.dk [87.53.223.189]) by ns2.pil.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607A57BA849 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:49:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by osgiliath.brixandersen.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E8B4E1FBD7; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:49:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:49:53 +0200 From: Henrik Brix Andersen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060721064953.GC4607@osgiliath.brixandersen.dk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20060720224632.GB31459@osgiliath.brixandersen.dk> <44C00B40.2010901@errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C00B40.2010901@errno.com> X-PGP-Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/HenrikBrixAndersen.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: "scan stuck" with if_iwi(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:49:55 -0000 --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Henrik Brix Andersen --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GnuPG signed iD8DBQFEwHkRv+Q4flTiePgRAjV6AKCveTaKh89RoLJ4Zuko8YD9Er//fACff5KW QbVaLFQfeXCcdYMU3RyJqy4= =IXqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--