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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:07:49 -0600
From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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Cc: David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: iwi failing after portupgrade
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:57:30 +1100
Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote:

> Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:13:47 +0000
> > David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Did a portupgrade last night and now my iwi card works only
> >> intermittently, if at all. Error log shows a LOT of
> >>
> >> "unknown notification type 15"
> >>
> >> The card had been working fine for the last 3 months until the
> >> portupgrade decided to update the iwi-firmware. Any ideas?
> >>     
> >
> > I remember see some more info on this on the stable mailing list.
> > You also need to check out grabbing the newest stable of 6. It
> > fixed a nice chunk of my problems with this chipset.
> >
> > I still have problems with changing APs and listing, but there is
> > suppose to be a fix linked to a patch set for that there some
> > here.
> >
> >   
> 
> Hi there, do you mind telling me how you do the 'listing' of
> available APs? I tried wistumbler but it locked up my box more
> often than not (was using 6.0 just before PRERELEASE#1,  iwi as
> module). Maybe this issue is fixed if I build the latest iwi into
> the kernel?
> 
> I also have installed kismet but havent configured it ...

ifconfig iwi<whatever> list

If you want to rescan it is ifconfig iwi<whatever> list scan.

This does cause problems if you have all ready associated and I have
under certain circumstances it will lock up. It seems worse with G
than B.