Problem with wi in CURRENT (and 5.1)

[Robert Hulme]

I am already running the latest firmware, and it works in 5.0 but not in
5.1 or 5-CURRENT.

Is anyone going to take a look at this? It seems that wi is broken for a
significant number of people (there have been several emails like mine
recently to current and mobile) in 5.1+

-Rob

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David O'Brien
> Sent: 23 June 2003 17:26
> To: Robert Hulme
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:48:13AM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with wi in 5-CURRENT and 5.1 in general.
> > I'm using a Proxim Skyline 802.11b PC Card (which I believe 
> uses the 
> > Prism 2 chipset). The PC Card is using the 0.3.0 primary and 0.8.3 
> > secondary firmware (which I believe is the latest). I have a Dell 
> > Inspiron 8200.
> > 
> > The card works fine in Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.0, but in 
> 5.1 if I use 
> > ifconfig to bring up the card (for example during boot) it locks my 
> > laptop up for about a minute while I get loads of error messages 
> > appear on screen. Eventually I get a 'init failed' and 'tx buffer 
> > allocation failed (error 12)' error, and although ifconfig says the 
> > interface is up it doesn't actually work.
> 
> See if there isn't updated firmware for your card.  Rumor has 
> it the MS-Windows driver uploads the latest firmware version 
> into the RAM on the card.
> 
> For Lucent cards you want any versoin 8 firmware from 
> http://www.expressresponse.com/cgi-bin/proxim02/showFaq.cgi?se
> ssion_id=1055265419.6837.7&type=&product=Client_Product
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