wi driver
Ian Smith
smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Wed Feb 8 07:59:38 UTC 2012
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 7 February 2012 11:49, Peter Lazar <pgl at bok.net> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > After reading
> >
> > http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-27830.html
> >
> > Here's my two cents on the wi driver.
>
> Hi,
>
> What about 8.0 ?
Rummaging through my old messages* shows I'd never tried wi on 8.0
through 8.1-stable, nor apparently 7.x, though I used to use it
infrequently but successfully on 4.8-R, 5.5-S and 6.1-R.
I can confirm Peter's report for my Cabletron Roamabout (Wavelan clone)
on 8.2-R, now:
interrupt storm detected on "irq11:"; throttling interrupt source
wi0: <Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
wi0: [ITHREAD]
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:63:82:d9:47
t23# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wi0
t23# ifconfig
[..]
wi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:e0:63:82:d9:47
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:e0:63:82:d9:47
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
bintval 0
With nothing to talk to here, I didn't try configuring wlan0 further.
wi0: detached
One earlier attempt on 8.2 shows the same interrupt storm on insertion,
except on an immediately subsequent insertion, it picked on irq 5 - ah,
but that was trying it in the other slot. On that occasion I didn't
bother trying to configure wlan0.
Oct 31 17:54:25 t23 kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq11:"; throttling interrupt source
Oct 31 17:54:25 t23 kernel: wi0: <Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
Oct 31 17:54:25 t23 kernel: wi0: [ITHREAD]
Oct 31 17:56:22 t23 kernel: wi0: detached
Oct 31 17:56:41 t23 kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq5:"; throttling interrupt source
Oct 31 17:56:41 t23 kernel: wi0: <Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 5 function 0 config 1 on pccard1
Oct 31 17:56:41 t23 kernel: wi0: [ITHREAD]
Oct 31 17:58:27 t23 kernel: wi0: wi_seek_bap: timeout, id ffff off 0
Oct 31 17:58:27 t23 last message repeated 2 times
Oct 31 17:58:28 t23 kernel: wi0: detached
> There are other changes that have occured in the kernel besides
> wireless. A lot of the "stuff used to work, now it doesn't" issues
> stem from PCI/PCMCIA/cardbus resource allocation changes.
Could be, but I vaguely recall a few other threads saying wi was broken?
cheers, Ian
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