Problem/freezes with if_bwi and firmware

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 5/11/09, Gustau Perez <gperez at entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
>   I'm using a Broadcom BCM4312 with i386 FreeBSD-8.0 updated May 08
> 2009. Ports up to date. Using net/bwi-firmware-kmod. Loading
> first bwi_v3_ucode and then  if_bwi.
>
>   When starting the supplicant, it associates fine and it works for a
> period of time. From time to time I start to lose signal, I'm my log I
> can see the following message :
>
>             May 11 08:42:51 gusiport kernel: bwi0: firmware rev 0x0127,
> patch level 0x000e
>             May 11 08:42:51 gusiport kernel: bwi0: bwi_intr: intr PHY TX
> error
>
>   Many of those messages per second. This is the first problem with
> if_bwi.  It forces me to restart by hand the wlan1 device associated to
> bwi0. And here comes the freeze (the second problem I encountered). If I
> try restarting like this :
>
>              /etc/rc.d/netif stop wlan1 && /etc/rc.d/netif start wlan1
>
>    it works (until the PHY TX error appears againg). If I try like :
>
>             /etc/rc.d/netif restart
>
>    or if I try  :
>
>            /etc/rc.d/netif stop bwi0
>
>    the machine freezes. If i try to kldunload the module while in use
> (if there's a wlan device created) the machine freezes too. It can be
> unloaded only if there is not any wlan associated to the bwi device.

Is this mini-pci card? (pciconf -lv)

-- 
Paul