From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 10 09:04:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CFA16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:04:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from fly.ebs.gr (fly.ebs.gr [83.171.239.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF03A43D46 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:04:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from ebs.gr (root@hal.ebs.gr [10.1.1.2]) by fly.ebs.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k2A94do0010860; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:04:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from [10.1.1.157] (pc157.ebs.gr [10.1.1.157]) by ebs.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2A94c2F050724; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:04:41 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Message-ID: <44114124.3010101@ebs.gr> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:04:36 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: EBS Ltd. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Laier References: <287c9df30603091429r17eb45a4vfc32d69bb8412a07@mail.gmail.com> <200603100145.51341.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200603100145.51341.max@love2party.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi0: unknown hdr type X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:04:43 -0000 Max Laier wrote: > On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:29, William Lam wrote: >> Running -CURRENT on an Thinkpad X32 with the standard onboard Intel >> 2915ABG wireless my system locks up hard if I switch to the console. I >> get an endless flood of the following messages: >> >> iwi0: unknown hdr type 47 >> iwi0: unknown hdr type 74 >> >> and between every six or seven of the those I see an >> iwi0: unknown hdr type 8 or 9, its diffcult to read since it goes by so >> fast. >> >> Perhaps related, occasionally the iwi0 interface will go down for no >> apparent reason and when I try to bring it back up the system will >> also lock up. I'm using the latest version of iwi-firmware in ports, >> 2.4_2. > > Can you please try the driver from here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/ FWIW, my testing on RELENG_6 has been very positive so far. I've been connecting to two different APs using both WPA and WEP without issues. I used to get the corrupted MAC message occasionally with the current driver, but not any more. The only thing out of the ordinary is the following message, which was already mentioned by someone on freebsd-net: iwi_cmd: cmd 0x19 not sent, busy This appears right before the 'link up' message, but after wpa_supplicant has started and dhclient has sent the first DHCPREQUEST. Cheers, Panagiotis