Re: bwi0: intr fatal TX/RX ([01]) error 0x00001000 (continuously streaming)

2014-01-28 Thread Sunny Raspet
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 15/01/14(Wed) 15:27, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> It seems the bwi driver lacks support for PIO mode which the >> linux b43 driver falls back to in case of DMA errors such as >> this one. >> >> Two related linux commits: >> https://git.kern

Re: Power consumption of various architectures

2014-01-20 Thread Sunny Raspet
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Артур Истомин wrote: > How can i find out this numbers? From power block sticker? Absolutely not. And also not from the manufacturer's specs (for those architectures and machines that still have this information published and publicly available.) The reason for

Re: bwi0: intr fatal TX/RX ([01]) error 0x00001000 (continuously streaming)

2014-01-15 Thread Sunny Raspet
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 14/01/14(Tue) 16:21, Sunny Raspet wrote: >> Running 5.4-RELEASE/macppc on a Mac PowerBook G4, attempting to >> interact with the built-in bwi(4) card results in badness. > > Sadly this is a know issue on most

bwi0: intr fatal TX/RX ([01]) error 0x00001000 (continuously streaming)

2014-01-14 Thread Sunny Raspet
Hello! Running 5.4-RELEASE/macppc on a Mac PowerBook G4, attempting to interact with the built-in bwi(4) card results in badness. I have installed bwi-firmware-1.4p2 from ports; the card is detected, but attempting to run "ifconfig bwi0 scan" or "ifconfig bwi0 up" results in the error message in

urtw0: works on amd64/i386, not on macppc

2013-10-22 Thread Sunny Raspet
Hello! While playing with some old USB wireless NICs, I've discovered an interesting problem: two different urtw0 adapters successfully attach on i386, amd64, and macppc (all running 5.3-RELEASE) but only successfully detect networks on amd64 and i386. I know from ancient history that the Realtek