From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 00:35:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D000106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-05.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-05.bluehost.com [69.89.21.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBD678FC18 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:35:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 21294 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jul 2009 00:35:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2009 00:35:00 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=VgP6BMgM8yIr9xeEyLyCCk6yjg2EfAxMPh2nZ7h79nSYCFAMHQ1V+VTje/sD7us7PC+WAf2+vtWUiQ7zuY7qgR6cabdsaBh/rQq8I8aA+FGvOLne8tZsPY19fmXQTy1i; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MQsSZ-00086V-Rb for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:35:00 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:28:27 -0600 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:28:27 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090715002827.GA2838@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090714053849.GB1893@kokopelli.hydra> <200907141220.25978.milu@dat.pl> <20090714202840.GB1832@kokopelli.hydra> <200907141253.42400.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200907141253.42400.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: turning off the wireless network radio X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:35:01 -0000 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:53:42PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 14 July 2009 12:28:40 Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > At first glance, it looks like the iwi equivalent is dev.iwi.0.radio, > > where 1 is on and 0 is off. It won't let me set it to 0, though, > > claiming it's a read-only sysctl setting. > > > > . . . and trying to set the debug.iwi sysctl setting to 1 caused the > > computer to reboot (not intended behavior, I'm sure). Bah. I wonder if > > there's something wrong with my driver. >=20 > There is plenty wrong with the driver, also with the product. Unfortunate= ly,=20 > Intel does not support the FreeBSD team with developers for the wireless = cards=20 > as they do with the wired cards and the iwi driver is particularly plague= d. Well . . . that's bad news, but it's good to know, I guess. Thanks. I wonder if my inability to turn off the adapter is a driver issue. There are times I can get it to turn off -- but other times, I can't. >=20 > At present the best working Intel wireless on FreeBSD is the wpi, but it = is on=20 > the virge of the same fate as Benjamin Close is lacking time to support i= t. >=20 > There's a group of people working on improving iwn for the 5000 series, e= ffort=20 > spawned from this list, but as of yet I haven't seen anything hit the sou= rce=20 > tree. Thanks for the information. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Christopher Hitchens: "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpdIqsACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWxDgCfThtgQVhaXzT/b8gt+OJgxt+M NLAAnRfZQRdD78m7SYoALY+szqLddyj4 =NA1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--