On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 02:48:13PM +0200, Dieter Brozio wrote: > Hi there, > > To whom it may concern: > > INTEL released in March 2009 a new version 3.1 of its firmware version for > the WLAN iwi device (Pro/Wireless 2200BG). > > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=8 > > On my 7.2.RC2 desktop PC (without WLAN) I noticed that in > > /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ipw2200_bss.fw.uu > /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ipw2200_ibss.fw.uu > /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ipw2200_sniffer.fw.uu > > is still the old v3.0 iwi firmware inside. > > This fw generates after some hours of operation error messages like > "iwi0:scan stuck" and finally the network connection will be disconnected. > I've tested fw v3.1 this week on my FBSD6.4 laptop: No problems, no "scan > stuck", no side-effects. Brilliant.
Great. If anyone can also confirm it works on current then I will commit. > I think you should update FBSD 7.2 with fw v3.1 because maybe you can fix > at least one of these bugs: The 7.2 images have been made so its too late, it can be merged to 7-stable and 7.3. Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
