Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:27:37 GMT From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/142907: if_wpi unstable on ibm/lenovo x60 -- suspect firmware issue Message-ID: <201001171127.o0HBRbHD089084@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201001171130.o0HBU6KP076073@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 142907 >Category: kern >Synopsis: if_wpi unstable on ibm/lenovo x60 -- suspect firmware issue >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 17 11:30:06 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Craig Butler >Release: 8.0-RELEASE-p1 >Organization: lerwick.hopto.org >Environment: FreeBSD x60.lerwick.hopto.org 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue Dec 22 00:05:16 GMT 2009 root@x60.lerwick.hopto.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_WITH_RADIX i386 >Description: I have experienced a lot of issues with the old wpi firmware as included in the src tree, connectivity lost fairly quickly in a WPA2 environment. I found that I had to keep restarting /etc/rc.d/netif even sometimes even reloading if_wpi to get connectivity restored. >How-To-Repeat: Connect to a WPA2(or maybe even WEP) wifi. It works for a bit but then it will drop the connection silently, unable to ping out to the gateway or get connectivity to the network >Fix: Firmware upgrade; I have found the following firmware to be a lot more stable... lifted from the intel site and uuencoded, appropriate parts of /usr/src updated. Still not 100% but a lot better, a lot less drop outs. As patch is bigger than 100KB I have uploaded it to my web server; http://lerwick.hopto.org/wpi.patch >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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