IWN performance very bad with 10.0-RC5

[Kevin Lo]

On 2014/01/12 14:36, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:45:59 -0800
> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Please help dig up which change broke it. Even just test out the head
>> iwn code from 6 months ago.
> I came to a very strange result. I have iwn in the kernel since June
> 2012 using 10. I also have had run in the kernel of another machine
> since February 2011. I could not even add runfw to the kernel those
> days running some 8 stable. I kept it that way until now.

This issue was solved by gonzo in r252064.

>
> run was always working. iwn gave problems starting between August and
> November of last year on my access point but still worked on other
> places. I used iwn to connect successfully to another wireless network
> mid November 2013.
>
> After adding the firmware to the kernel for both iwn and run, I could
> compile the kernel and iwn started to work. runfw did not break
> compilation.
>
> I wonder now if the iwn or run could even work without firmware or if
> the firmware was automatically loaded even when iwn or run where
> compiled into the kernel.

run(4) requires a firmware to function.  The firmware is automatically
loaded if and only if you compile runfw(4) as module and run(4)
compiled into the kernel.

>
> Erich

     Kevin