svn commit: r207709 - head/sys/dev/iwn

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:55:11PM -0400, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: bschmidt
> > Date: Thu May  6 17:53:04 2010
> > New Revision: 207709
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/207709
> >
> > Log:
> >  Add a workaround for a bug in the firmware regarding the transition
> >  from passive to active scans. Basicly disable it by increasing the
> >  amount packets to be received to an amount which can't be reached
> >  during dwell times.
> 
> Is this expected to fix the firmware errors that have cropped up
> periodically for me?
> (Sorry for the lack of useful bug reports, etc.)

I'm not aware that this generated any firmware errors.

For scans on certain channels (definitely those which require radar
detection) the firmware scan command might return with an error code
instead of the expected scan result though. Which made it pretty much
impossible to connect on those channels.

-- 
Bernhard