Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:05:02 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi: firmware error Message-ID: <44DA15BE.4070402@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20060809093810.GA22798@laverenz.de> References: <20060809093810.GA22798@laverenz.de>
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Uwe Laverenz wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed RELENG_6 on a Thinkpad R51 and would like to use the > built-in wireless card with wpa_supplicant. Everything works as expected > but there is one problem I can't solve on my own: the iwi-driver > complains about problems with the firmware, especially when there is > wireless traffic: > > iwi0: firmware error > > The device goes down immediately and sometimes comes up again after a > while. The system runs RELENG_6 as of last sunday, the firmware is 3.0 > from /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod. > > I have a similar setup on a T41 with ath0 which runs quite well. > > My questions: > > - Is this a known problem with iwi? > > - What can I do to debug and/or solve this problem? > > - Should I file a PR? If your card is reset+usable after the error then this is a known problem. If you find things unusable then please collect some debug msgs from the driver by setting debug.iwi to 1 and file a PR. Sam
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