From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 09:03:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE9816A4DD for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jchoque@tlmat.unican.es) Received: from luna.tlmat.unican.es (luna.tlmat.unican.es [193.144.186.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA4243D49 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:03:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jchoque@tlmat.unican.es) Received: from Altair (altair.tlmat.unican.es [193.144.186.43]) by luna.tlmat.unican.es (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k878ZA8j002221; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:35:10 +0200 From: "Johnny Choque" To: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:03:03 +0200 Message-ID: <009001c6d25c$6d814390$2bba90c1@Altair> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 thread-index: AcbR1XSIhRMcrhgiT7iCkFh/AJmfywAhFTKw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 In-Reply-To: <200609061924.14446.max@love2party.net> Cc: 'Max Laier' Subject: RE: PRO/wireless scanning X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:03:11 -0000 > > 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 >