Sam Leffler wrote:
Yousif Hassan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:06 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote:
Mel wrote:
Do the recent patches by Andrew make a difference?
http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_head.diff
http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff
(ccing freebsd-net)
Ben,
I had a go with this patch today on top of 7.0-RELEASE.
The good:
- Switching off the radio and back on finally works - nice work.
- Scanning seems faster (but see caveat below)
- Association is MUCH faster (mind you, I don't use an encrypted AP).
- The "failed to align memory" stuff when the driver loads up -
fixed. - The fact that it reloaded in the kernel even if I manually
kldunloaded
if_wpi.ko - fixed
The slightly wonky:
- As reported by someone else:
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
appear on startup and occasionally on kldload - however they don't
appear to adversely affect too much
The ugly:
- I can only do an ifconfig wpi0 scan every OTHER time - in between
successful attempts, I get
wpi0: fatal firmware error
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring (or: timeout resetting Tx ring 0)
wpi0: link state changed to DOWN
This wouldn't be so bad since it works every other time, but the
problem is that every time I do a scan, it sets the link state down,
causing the connection to drop - doesn't seem normal. Of course then it
comes right back up but the network interruption is not so great.
Hmm - what else? The whole thing seems - livelier. I need to run some
throughput benchmarks but traffic to/from the card on my local network
seems faster and more responsive. Hopefully this isn't the placebo
effect. ;)
Great work to you & rest of team on this patch... it's more than usable
at this point!
wpi doesn't yet support background scan so doing an explicit scan from
the command line will disconnect you from any ap you care connected
to. It shouldn't be hard to add bgscan--but that's easy for me to say :)
It's certainly on my todo list!
Cheers,
Benjamin
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