From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 15:50:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B521065670 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E708FC23 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f6so2045599rvb.43 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:50:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MzJLb67Yjs+dW8R9gEI1OXK3HYgxuZ7Kr2rW0ya4qGk=; b=OebyrAeehA31YLdVlDNR1eyR8GUCBRQ6pHGelJgoTDqcN/sirgJrlnp17zIT7/l1Z7 lFW8GE22AV7AnLB/UHkEYJitlGPGY+l4H4TQhe1CQxOFgrhlOdGkM1wqiR5rgXlxQrBR iQZLm/Y96tro+sfk6TQ4BQBeIVtJyX85ef1Jc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=B8omHhREzgBSdkfeEnwhwTdBLNTTR3FJyOkOEhaXIatI0YbRN3TG74853dxbH0q1dW ihnh+ezjn96uCR4fdiFiosRk0FegnfhYVc7avvhGdGsHL2UikPze2ITIZWOKoeEZYbKY bG4FEdHFykqHUqkjrvnC9E8ox50sZhBRpQHpI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.139.3 with SMTP id m3mr2088040rvd.64.1235402477492; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:21:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:21:17 +0100 Message-ID: <14989d6e0902230721x7a2cd30cw4e548451c87e17cd@mail.gmail.com> From: Christian Walther To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:50:24 -0000 Hi, after some time without FreeBSD I installed 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad T30 (with ZFS root on encrypted geli, works great). Config is: FreeBSD hasking.alashan.nongo 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #3: Thu Feb 5 21:10:45 CET 2009 root@hasking.alashan.nongo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HASKING i386 I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have some issues in regard to interrupt handling: Feb 17 20:15:21 hasking kernel: ath0: mem 0xd0210000-0xd021ffff irq 3 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 Feb 17 20:15:21 hasking kernel: ath0: [ITHREAD] Feb 17 20:15:21 hasking kernel: ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface Feb 17 20:15:21 hasking kernel: ath0: Ethernet address: 00:19:5b:3a:82:be Feb 17 20:15:21 hasking kernel: ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 ... Feb 17 21:39:19 hasking kernel: ath0: link state changed to UP Feb 17 21:39:19 hasking kernel: ath0: link state changed to DOWN Feb 17 21:39:23 hasking kernel: ath0: link state changed to UP Feb 17 21:39:23 hasking kernel: ath0: link state changed to DOWN Feb 17 21:39:24 hasking kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq3:"; throttling interrupt source Next I gave the following card a try: iwi0: mem 0xd0200000-0xd0200fff irq 5 at device 2.0 on pci2 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:15:00:31:f3:76 iwi0: [ITHREAD] ...and it regularly drops/looses connection to the WLAN router, as stated in the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=124767 Basically, my question is if there is a fix for any of these issues that I haven't found so far, so that I can eventually use one of my existing wireless cards, or if I should switch to a different brand/model. If the latter is the case I'd like to know which one to choose. Regards Christian Walther