IWN (Centrino 1000)

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 22:49:03 you wrote:
> On 05/18/11 00:07, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > Care to explain why it is "better" then the Intel 1000? I'm not
> > aware of any issues, if there are some, I want to know about that
> > so I can actually have a look at it..
> 
> About half as many networks are seen in FreeBSD compared to Windows 
> (perhaps sensitivity? antenna config?). IWN drops WPA2 connections after 
> a while (not consistent). Once in a blue moon the actual driver goes 
> wonky and I get an exciting tx ringbuf etc printout.
> 
> Of course this is all hearsay and voodoo without logs, so I will try to 
> reproduce these issues and post them.

Please do that. The "tx ringbuf printout" is probably a firmware
error, those are really hard to debug without access to the fw
sources.. so, try to get as much info as possible. Ideally with
a way to reproduce it.

> Also, is the lack of ibss/ahdemo support due to firmware bugs? I noticed 
> ibss is commented out in the module source. Wouldn't ahdemo at least be 
> somewhat similar to monitor mode?

IBSS/ahdemo mode is at least missing one thing, support for
multiple stations. I've been poked by various people about
it.. guess it's time to have a closer look at it.

-- 
Bernhard