From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 06:41:57 2010 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 434B51065670 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:41:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidb@boothscientific.com) Received: from mx1.lsn.net (mx1.lsn.net [66.90.130.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1087C8FC12 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 9400.boothscientific.com (24-155-245-244.dyn.grandenetworks.net [24.155.245.244]) by mx1.lsn.net (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id nBN02CaH005677 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:02:13 -0600 From: David Booth To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.4; i386; ; ) References: <3a142e750911222316m7b7b374ajd087fd28581a7256@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912221802.17294.davidb@boothscientific.com> X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at mx0.lsn.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: iwi connect problems in 9.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: davidb@boothscientific.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:41:57 -0000 X-Original-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:02:16 -0600 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:41:57 -0000 On Tuesday 22 December 2009, martinko wrote: > 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 > On (1) be sure you are using syncdhcp if you are using dhcp. e.g. ifconfig_wlan0="wpa syncdhcp -bgscan mode 11g" this should take care of the "slow connection" issue. (2) I see that also, but it seems to be harmless