From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 07:34:06 2003 Return-Path: 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 B272537B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DD943FEA for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100])h63EXUQ01286; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:33:30 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:33:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030703.053150.41960250.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20030703163217.Q7076@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <20030703032544.GP29066@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030703.053150.41960250.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't connect to wireless network with recent -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:34:07 -0000 On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: MWL>In message: <20030703091732.F30117@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> MWL> Harti Brandt 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