Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-23 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 24/05/2010 05:44, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:18:30 +0200 >> From: Dominic Fandrey >> Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org >> >> On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote:

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:18:30 +0200 > From: Dominic Fandrey > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On 17 May 2010 17:0

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-22 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: >> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > [...] >>> The ipw card in my T42 is the o

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] >> >>> The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e"). >> >> Yes, and replacing this

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e"). Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card in many IBM Thinkpad

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:26:42 +0200 > From: Christian Walther > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > Hi, > > On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >>[...] > > > The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e"). > > Yes, an

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>[...] > The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e"). Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card in many IBM Thinkpad Laptops have a custom firmware, and the cards ID

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote: Note that not all laptops will play nicely with different wifi cards. My old HP laptop would not boot up past the BIOS if you replaced the wifi card with one not in its magic list, which I found out after I had bo

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: >> On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> >>> The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems >> >> I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> >> The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems > > I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an > exception, recently, iwn was very stable o

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very stable on 8-STABLE.) For most notebooks, I bought Atheros based MiniPCI(e) car

if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems really just are the tip of the iceberg: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144898 A notebook without wireless is really just a portable workstation. I've seen a lot of commits to other wireless drivers in recent months. So it