wi0 wi_seek timeout

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:54:48 -0500
> From: Peter Radcliffe <pir at pir.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> Neil Camara <neil-on-mobile at restricted.dyndns.org> probably said:
> > But anyways, what are the fixes for the errors below? I just hope my card 
> > isn't toast. FYI, I only uploaded P and S. 
> 
> The only fix I've found for that is firmware 1.7.6 and higher, which
> of course doesn't work as a base station under -stable.
> 
> There is a small patch floating around which as helped things for 
> many people - search the archives for DELAY and proxim.

Google for "zec DELAY(1) prism". It's a two line patch to if_wi.c adding
very brief delays after calls to read the CSR2 after a reset attempt.
Seems to make things run very smoothly.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634