On Monday 06 March 2006 15:33, Joerg Pulz wrote: > Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > From: Max Laier > > > >> there have been a lot of problem reports with iwi(4) lately. > >> Can everybody who does have problems with it please take a look at: > >> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/ > > > > I'd be happy to give this a run, since I haven't had much luck doing > > things like cvsup over my 2915 with the drivers in _5, _6 and CURRENT. > > Looking at the tarball contents, do I just extract it into the top of my > > src tree? > > Hi, > > normally it would be enough to extract it into the top of the src tree, > but there is a MFC of src/sys/modules/Makefile rev 1.470 missing for the > now required firmware(9) subsystem. > On a RELENG_6 tree, you have to edit src/sys/modules/Makefile manually to > add "firmware" and "iwi_fw" to the list of modules to build. > > Attached is a small patch for RELENG_6's src/sys/modules/Makefile.
Oh, I forgot again. Will fix the firmware part now, so please don't be alarmed if you get one rejected hunk from Joergs patch after that. Thanks for providing it. > To make my eMail complete, here are my first results. > > building, installing and booting went fine after modifying > src/sys/modules/Makefile. > using 'ifconfig iwi0 up' automatically loads the firmware module, > 'ifconfig iwi0 down' unloads it. thats really nice. > Static WEP configuration is working, and the scan returns very fast and > the device gets associated to my FreeBSD ath(4) based AP. > wpa_supplicant(8) is working now for the first time with iwi(4). > putting 'ifconfig_iwi0="DHCP WPA"' was ending in a system hang of my IBM > X41 with the old driver. > Now, with the new driver, this is working!! The only shortcut i found, is > that wpa_supplicant(8) is always trying to use WPA but that is not > configured on my access point. So the whole procedure takes a bit of time > until wpa_supplicant(8) decides to use WEP. I'm not sure if this is driver > related or something inside wpa_supplicant(8)... > > Anyway, thanks a lot Max, for making the iwi(4) driver stable and better. > > regards > Joerg -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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