From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 20:48:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53C416A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE9D43D1D for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: from ambrisko.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.ambrisko.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1C4mdu0081874; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i1C4mdJj081869; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200402120448.i1C4mdJj081869@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200402050152.i151qKA3012645@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> To: Jake Khuon Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:38 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cisco mini-PCI cards with the latest firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:48:40 -0000 Jake Khuon writes: | ### On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:44:55 -0800 (PST), Doug Ambrisko | ### casually decided to expound upon Joe Marcus | ### Clarke the following thoughts about "Re: Cisco | ### mini-PCI cards with the latest firmware": | | DA> Joe Marcus Clarke writes: | DA> | I'm curious if there are any known issues with the -CURRENT an driver, | DA> | and the Cisco Aironet mini-PCI cards running the latest firmware? I | DA> | have seen some emails in December, but I wanted to confirm if there was | DA> | still an issue on -CURRENT? Thanks. | DA> | DA> If you use older firmware (ie. firmware before they started to use TX Copy ) | DA> then it works okay in -CURRENT. In 5.2 there was some #ifdef HACK code | DA> that tried to deal with the TX Copy stuff but it had negative effect on | DA> the older firmware. So it should work okay. Getting the information | DA> I need to fix it still hasn't happened and I haven't got lucky with | DA> my experiemnts :-( | | At what point did they start doing the TX copy stuff? I and others running | 5.00.01 are seeing some problems with the card hanging or timing out. I've | also had the system crash on me. This does indeed seem to happen when | signal quality gets low and/or lots of network activity is happening. Not sure. If you find out let me know. I've been using MPI350v50001.IMG. It works in my testing without those issues. That could be a firmware bug. Normally a firmware upgrade would fix that but not in this case. | When you say the HACK code had detrimental effects on older firmware, are | you also implying that it works fine with newer firmware? In other words, | would upgrading the firmware to the latest and #define'ing the HACK allow | things to work properly? Nope just makes the newer firmware work somewhat better. I do have an idea that might make things better but haven't tried it yet. If Cisco would give me more information then I might not have to guess at things :-( My guessing hasn't been very productive in this case. Doug A.