Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:47:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Can't connect to wireless network with recent -CURRENT Message-ID: <20030705061735.GU366@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030703163217.Q7076@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <20030703032544.GP29066@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030703091732.F30117@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030703.053150.41960250.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030703163217.Q7076@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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--0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 3 July 2003 at 16:33:30 +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > 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 Hmm. I'd look on that as a workaround, not a fix. The driver shouldn't become more sensitive towards microcode revisions. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Bm1/IubykFB6QiMRAqYkAJ4t3GyBebtq1ejk5ElXom9em1QMigCdFjDU UwijovMdP9dGDRJvxJ1I14k= =96/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP--
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