iwn(4) (Intel 4965 wireless) backport

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:08 +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:48 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> >   
> >> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
> >>>> quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE.  If you're interested in
> >>>> reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this  
> >>>> can be sorted.
> >>>>         
> >>> I am interested in doing this.  Please advise on how I can get these  
> >>> bits.
> >>>       
> >> I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats
> >> me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver.
> >>     
> >
> > OK, I've backported the iwn(4) driver for the Intel 4965 wireless
> > chipset to 7-STABLE.
> >
> > You need both of:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~gavin/iwn-7/iwn-7.tgz
> >   
> Loading if_iwn.ko make a nice reboot on my laptop.
> No messages just a reset... FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #29: Tue Jul 29 16:13:47 
> EEST 2008 i386
> May be I should try with more recent -stable ?

Are you loading this while in X or on the console?  If X, can you try
from a console and see if anything else happens before the reboot (like
a panic)?

I don't believe there are any changes between 7.0 and stable that would
result in a panic under an earlier version.  You could try recompiling
your kernel with "options GDB/KDB/DDB" and "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" and
see if you get dropped to the debugger, if you do the result of the
command "bt" would be very useful.

Thanks,

Gavin