Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:33:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't connect to wireless network with recent -CURRENT Message-ID: <20030703163217.Q7076@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20030703.053150.41960250.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030703032544.GP29066@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030703.053150.41960250.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: MWL>In message: <20030703091732.F30117@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> MWL> Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes: MWL>: I think the same problem was reported by Rob Holmes two weeks ago and by MWL>: me (although with lesser detail) yesterday. I converted my kernel from MWL>: OLDBUS to NEWBUS and now one out of four or five tries the card works, but MWL>: this is really annoying. I have an Inspiron 8200 and an Avaya (that is a MWL>: Lucent) card. I have found no solution until now. MWL> MWL>The lucent problem is well known and has been known for a long time. MWL>It was broken between 5.0 and 5.1 for some people with lucent cards MWL>(not me and mine). Enabling WITNESS seens to help, but that likely MWL>means that it is a race that the overhead of WITNESS tickles in MWL>certain ways. Sam indicated he'd try to find some time to fix it. MWL>There's something subtle going on with the lucent cards, and I've MWL>given up trying to find it. I just do't have the time. Updating the firmware from www.agere.com to 8.72.1 has cured the problem (except for two messages from the kernel): Jul 3 16:09:05 harti kernel: wi0: bad alloc 204 != 201, cur 0 nxt 0 Jul 3 16:09:09 harti kernel: wi0: bad alloc 208 != 205, cur 0 nxt 0 harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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