Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:41:57 -0000 From: David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi connect problems in 9.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <200912221802.17294.davidb@boothscientific.com> In-Reply-To: <hgrjrk$hil$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <ca14fd310911221539t2d2c5b45of78febe11713f73d@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750911222316m7b7b374ajd087fd28581a7256@mail.gmail.com> <hgrjrk$hil$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tuesday 22 December 2009, martinko wrote: > Paul B Mahol wrote: > > On 11/23/09, Rui Paulo<rpaulo@freebsd.org> 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
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