Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:30:15 -0500 From: Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cisco Aironet MPI350 Fix Message-ID: <20091124043015.GA21209@goldengraham> In-Reply-To: <20091123211734.GA1207@minifree> References: <20091122175555.GA15539@minifree.wright.edu> <200911231001.51082.jhb@freebsd.org> <20091123211734.GA1207@minifree>
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:01:50AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:55:55 pm Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a Cisco Aironet MPI350 PCI card in my Thinkpad X31, and on a > > > fresh install of FreeBSD 8.0-RC3, the card did not work. Also, it caused > > > my system to freeze up for a few seconds about once a minute as the > > > driver spit out "an0: device timeout" messages so long as the interface > > > was up. I researched the issue, and found the following fix already in > > > dragonflybsd's tree: > > > > > > > > http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commit/7a2a04db44efafea257db883ae3eb5e4ebf2ece9 > > > > > > I modified the patch and applied it to FreeBSD's kernel (trivial), and > > > am happy to report that my card is now working flawlessly. Could someone > > > possibly review this patch and integrate it into the source tree so that > > > others may benefit from it as well? > > > > > > The patch is based off of 8.0-RC3's code, but applies to the latest code > > > as well without modification. > > > > Can you try this version? The IFF_DRV_OACTIVE bits don't look correct to me > > so I've left them out. I also changed the driver to use bus_*() vs > > bus_space_*(). > > > > -- > > John Baldwin > > Tried it at home, worked great. My university's wireless is shoddy. I'm not sure if this is related to your patch or not, but I've been getting spurts of kernel: stray irq7 messages that I don't recall getting before the patch. Do you think it could be related?
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