Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:03:03 +0200 From: "Johnny Choque" <jchoque@tlmat.unican.es> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Cc: 'Max Laier' <max@love2party.net> Subject: RE: PRO/wireless scanning Message-ID: <009001c6d25c$6d814390$2bba90c1@Altair> In-Reply-To: <200609061924.14446.max@love2party.net>
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> > I'm testing the scanning features of Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG > > build-in Toshiba Tecra M3 using FreeBSD 6.1 and > iwi-firmware-2.4_7 (I > > think that it is the last version, isn't it?). I have noticed a > > unstable behavior of the wireless interface when I try to scan the > > access point around it (ifconfig iwi0 scan). Sometimes it > provide the > > report of the detected access points but sometimes it keep > waiting a > > long time without provide any report. Do you have the same behavior > > with iwi driver and iwi-firmware?, do you know how I can > find a solution for that? > > > > I have also noticed that the web pages for Intel > PRO/Wireless 2200BG > > for FreeBSD (http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html) > > have a watermark that say "discontinued", does mean that there are > > another web or project that will continue to improve the iwi driver > > and iwi-firmware? Do you know any information about that? > > Please use iwi(4) from RELENG_6 (soon to be 6.2), which has > many improvements and bug fixes over the version that was > shipped with 6.1. Actually, I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, does your suggestion means that I need to make an upgrading of the base system? Sorry for my newbie question. Does "iwi(4)" means? When I do "man iwi" I see "iwi(4)" on the upper side, is that right?. I also noticed that I have the /usr/port/net/iwi-firmware-kmod, is it needed to upgrade the base system? > Note that it uses the firmware(9) subsystem to load the > firmware image, so you will have to change to > net/iwi-firmware-kmod from ports - as described in UPDATING. > The latest firmware version - IIRC is 3.0. How can I get the firmware version 3.0? > > -- > /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org > \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 > X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet > / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News >
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