From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 23:21:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EBA106566C for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F3B8FC1E for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NNDvo-0000g9-DO for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:14:20 +0100 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:14:20 +0100 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:14:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:13:56 +0100 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <3a142e750911222316m7b7b374ajd087fd28581a7256@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091220 SeaMonkey/2.0.1 In-Reply-To: <3a142e750911222316m7b7b374ajd087fd28581a7256@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: iwi connect problems in 9.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:33 -0000 Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 11/23/09, Rui Paulo wrote: >> On 22 Nov 2009, at 23:39, michael brindle wrote: >>> >>> So, my questions are: >>> Why is txpower set to 0, what does that mean? That it can't transmit at >>> all? >> >> No, it could just be that the driver is providing wrong tx power >> information. > > No, because regdomain is not set txpower is always reported to be 0. > > iwi driver doesn't have TXPMGT cap (looks to be bug), so you can not set > txpower at all because net80211 thinks it is not supported. I can confirm that "the bug" is also in 8.0-RELEASE and that on 6.x txpower was non-zero (100 IIRC). Also, I'm seeing other issues ... 1) During boot wireless interface is too slow to associate and I'm seeing connection errors from other programs (e.g. ntpd). This was not the case with 6.x releases. 2) The following began appearing in the system log: kernel: iwi0: need multicast update callback Also wpa_supplicant(8) generates quite a lot of messages (it did none before). Some of them seems interesting while others not (to me). I hope someone will fix the issues (although they're not critical). With regards, Martin