Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:07:49 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: freebsd@meijome.net Cc: David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi failing after portupgrade Message-ID: <20060219190749.12707fe8@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <43F905EA.9080003@meijome.net> References: <43F755CB.5000607@jetnet.co.uk> <20060218135951.2afc6763@vixen42.vulpes> <43F905EA.9080003@meijome.net>
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:57:30 +1100 Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:13:47 +0000 > > David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > >> Did a portupgrade last night and now my iwi card works only > >> intermittently, if at all. Error log shows a LOT of > >> > >> "unknown notification type 15" > >> > >> The card had been working fine for the last 3 months until the > >> portupgrade decided to update the iwi-firmware. Any ideas? > >> > > > > I remember see some more info on this on the stable mailing list. > > You also need to check out grabbing the newest stable of 6. It > > fixed a nice chunk of my problems with this chipset. > > > > I still have problems with changing APs and listing, but there is > > suppose to be a fix linked to a patch set for that there some > > here. > > > > > > Hi there, do you mind telling me how you do the 'listing' of > available APs? I tried wistumbler but it locked up my box more > often than not (was using 6.0 just before PRERELEASE#1, iwi as > module). Maybe this issue is fixed if I build the latest iwi into > the kernel? > > I also have installed kismet but havent configured it ... ifconfig iwi<whatever> list If you want to rescan it is ifconfig iwi<whatever> list scan. This does cause problems if you have all ready associated and I have under certain circumstances it will lock up. It seems worse with G than B.
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