wi0 and adhoc

[Adrian Chadd]

2011/5/11 Lystopad Olexandr <laa at laa.zp.ua>:
> Hi!
>
> I have two freebsd boxes with 4.11 (yes, really!). They both
> serve wifi adhoc link (wi0 + pcic0: <Vadem 469>) during many
> years with no problems. One box has died, and I change it to
> new one with 8.0-rel. New box have cbb0 and same wi0 card. So,
> now I have two boxes 4.11 and 8.0. Both with wi0 devices detected.

[snip]

> dmesg:
> wi0: <Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 17 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
> wi0: [ITHREAD]
> wi0: device timeout
> wi0: device timeout
> wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fd44, got=fc80
> wi0: device timeout
> ....
>
> my questions are:
> 1. why txpower 0 in 8.0 box?
> 2. why too many ``device timeout'' messages in dmesg on 8.0 box?
> 3. why all pings lost in that link?

Because noone has kept the wavelan driver up to date? :/

I'm happy to commit any fixes people have for the wavelan driver.

Adrian