Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:29:50 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Joerg Pulz <Joerg.Pulz@frm2.tum.de> Cc: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers Message-ID: <200603061629.57893.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20060306103705.R28829@hades.admin.frm2> References: <001001c640f0$5e1c27b0$672a15ac@smiley> <20060306103705.R28829@hades.admin.frm2>
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--nextPart1979885.DMzLN14Y2h Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 06 March 2006 15:33, Joerg Pulz wrote: > Content-ID: <20060306115058.X28829@hades.admin.frm2> > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > From: Max Laier > > > >> there have been a lot of problem reports with iwi(4) lately. > >> Can everybody who does have problems with it please take a look at: > >> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/ > > > > I'd be happy to give this a run, since I haven't had much luck doing > > things like cvsup over my 2915 with the drivers in _5, _6 and CURRENT.= =20 > > Looking at the tarball contents, do I just extract it into the top of my > > src tree? > > Hi, > > normally it would be enough to extract it into the top of the src tree, > but there is a MFC of src/sys/modules/Makefile rev 1.470 missing for the > now required firmware(9) subsystem. > On a RELENG_6 tree, you have to edit src/sys/modules/Makefile manually to > add "firmware" and "iwi_fw" to the list of modules to build. > > Attached is a small patch for RELENG_6's src/sys/modules/Makefile. Oh, I forgot again. Will fix the firmware part now, so please don't be=20 alarmed if you get one rejected hunk from Joergs patch after that. Thanks= =20 for providing it. > To make my eMail complete, here are my first results. > > building, installing and booting went fine after modifying > src/sys/modules/Makefile. > using 'ifconfig iwi0 up' automatically loads the firmware module, > 'ifconfig iwi0 down' unloads it. thats really nice. > Static WEP configuration is working, and the scan returns very fast and > the device gets associated to my FreeBSD ath(4) based AP. > wpa_supplicant(8) is working now for the first time with iwi(4). > putting 'ifconfig_iwi0=3D"DHCP WPA"' was ending in a system hang of my IBM > X41 with the old driver. > Now, with the new driver, this is working!! The only shortcut i found, is > that wpa_supplicant(8) is always trying to use WPA but that is not > configured on my access point. So the whole procedure takes a bit of time > until wpa_supplicant(8) decides to use WEP. I'm not sure if this is driver > related or something inside wpa_supplicant(8)... > > Anyway, thanks a lot Max, for making the iwi(4) driver stable and better. > > regards > Joerg =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 --nextPart1979885.DMzLN14Y2h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEDFV1XyyEoT62BG0RAi7qAJ9qFOu5r4BOa5FhSttYt9RS60ZdogCeLbOm f99OGPVURUpdX2G7kK91rtc= =ylMc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1979885.DMzLN14Y2h--
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