iwi connect problems in 9.0-CURRENT

[David Booth]

On Tuesday 22 December 2009, martinko wrote:
> Paul B Mahol wrote:
> > On 11/23/09, Rui Paulo<rpaulo at 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