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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:46:23 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is 802.11a supposed to work with wpi?
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Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> You need to set the tunable debug.wpi before loading the module.  Set it 
> to 0x82, enable bootverbose and then load the module. 

Ok, the full verbose dmesg is at http://dougbarton.us/wpi-debug.txt. I
wasn't sure what to delete so the only thing I deleted was the hda
(sound) stuff.

> I see you also 
> don't have the revision D hardware, which is the only one the driver 
> actively knows about. 

Errr, ok?  :)  Is mine newer or older? And is this something that a
different firmware would fix?

> It's also interesting that all the A channels are listed as being passive, 
> what regdomain do you have set (ifconfig wlan0 will say)?  You could try 
> changing the regdomain (IANAL) and see what happens.

It's currently set to US, which is good because that's where I'm at.
If I were to change it, what would be a good value to try?


Doug

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