From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 13:16:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7401065670 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 13:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from mailhost.uni-hamburg.de (mailhost.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.32.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F218FC18 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 13:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.uni-hamburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A2290110; Mon, 17 May 2010 15:01:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by University of Hamburg (RRZ/mailhost) Received: from mailhost.uni-hamburg.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost.uni-hamburg.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id crE30aUCjUrA; Mon, 17 May 2010 15:01:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pc861.math.uni-hamburg.de (pc861.math.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.222.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: fmjv004) by mailhost.uni-hamburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 363E790152; Mon, 17 May 2010 15:01:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4BF15A62.7070602@janh.de> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:01:54 +0000 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100514 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Fandrey References: <4BF0EDC9.3090603@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <4BF0EDC9.3090603@bsdforen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable-list freebsd Subject: Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken 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: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:16:35 -0000 On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very stable on 8-STABLE.) For most notebooks, I bought Atheros based MiniPCI(e) cards and everything was fine. > Where do I have to put my cash to make somebody fix this? 5 to 10 Euros on Ebay including shipping. Initially, I was hesitant, too, because I wanted the hardware I already got to work, but eventually I decided that it is not worse it. ath simply works. (I have had wi, ral, ural, rum, and zyd, too. Over the years, nothing was as unproblematic as ath.) For most notebooks, the wireless MiniPCI(e) card is very easy to replace. Cheers, Jan Henrik