Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:24:08 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Johnny Choque <jchoque@tlmat.unican.es> Subject: Re: PRO/wireless scanning Message-ID: <200609061924.14446.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <006101c6d1a8$2c747b60$2bba90c1@Altair> References: <006101c6d1a8$2c747b60$2bba90c1@Altair>
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--nextPart1260778.V81C61jfGK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:32, Johnny Choque wrote: > 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=20 improvements and bug fixes over the version that was shipped with 6.1. =20 Note that it uses the firmware(9) subsystem to load the firmware image,=20 so you will have to change to net/iwi-firmware-kmod from ports - as=20 described in UPDATING. The latest firmware version - IIRC is 3.0. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1260778.V81C61jfGK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE/wQ+XyyEoT62BG0RAuXJAJwLjUWTRVy/o4s25dUZvVwUeb/seQCcCFw+ H9xRA+zSuNilE2G75RAIa4s= =TlZ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1260778.V81C61jfGK--
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