Re: WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

2013-07-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
The wifi improvements are going into -HEAD. _I_ have no plans to backport them to -9 as there's just too much changing/improving. So I hate to say it, but I think you're going to be short of luck. FreeBSD-10 needs testing sooner rather than later, so I do really suggest you just bite the bullet an

Re: WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

2013-07-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013, at 11:05, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: > To make the smallest upgrade possible and minimize potential reconfig > issues etc. 8.1 was the first release supporting WG111v3. > > Could give a try with 8.4 if there was any major fix to WPA and WLAN > drivers since 8.1? With minor ve

RE: WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

2013-07-17 Thread sbremal
., correct? Still the other quesion: What is the WLAN (PCI/PCIe) card most people use HAPPILY in FreeBSD? Support for 802.11n would not be bad. Cheers Balazs > From: f...@freebsd.org > To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: WG111v3 + 'urtw

Re: WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

2013-07-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013, at 10:36, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: > Hello > > Just recently upgraded to 8.1 and installed the 'urtw' driver for my > Netgear WG111v3 USB WLAN card. Is there a reason why you specifically upgraded to 8.1 instead of choosing 8.3 or 8.4? FreeBSD 8.1 has been EoL since July

WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

2013-07-17 Thread sbremal
Hello Just recently upgraded to 8.1 and installed the 'urtw' driver for my Netgear WG111v3 USB WLAN card. All fine, systems boots, WLAN card gets IP address, network runs. And then suddenly network connection breaks down. And never recovers. Only reboot helps. Apparently the WLAN connection mo