Frank Staals wrote: > Benjamin Close wrote: >> Howdy All, I'm pleased to announce the first 'official' >> experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require >> your help in making it become stable. >> Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but >> in general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not >> yet supported). >> >> If you've got an Intel 3945abg wireless card, grab the tarball at: >> >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz >> >> >> Untar and follow the instructions in the README. >> If you want more info about the driver, or to checkout the FAQ checkout: >> >> http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi >> >> I'm interested in all reports related to panics, things not working >> as expected, etc. >> The driver still has debug enabled so expect a few messages to be >> dumped to the screen whilst in use. >> >> Finally, many thanks to all those that have been helping debug the >> driver along the way. >> >> Cheers, >> Benjamin >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mobile_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >> > Woei ! It's working for me so far :) Allthough I still have issues > when switching from one tty to one other. Here the output of the > script I am using to do the connecting : > > loaded the module at boot > > ran my script which does: ( output snipped ) > > wlannic=wpi0 > > # clear the selected gateway: > route flush > > # Set the interface ifconfig ${wlannic} 192.168.5.5 ssid > <SSID> > > # Set a new gateway > route add default 192.168.5.1 > # make sure to give the LAN-NIC an other IP-address > ifconfig ${lannic} 192.168.200.2 > > ifconfig ${wlannic} up > > # test connection > ping -c 1 192.168.5.1 > # start a screen session with ssh connection for > authentication > screen -d -m ssh -l wifi 192.168.5.1 > # wait a while before testing the connection > sleep 3 > > # test conn: > ping -c 1 google.nl > > > > Everything works fine with the connection itself. Allthough sometimes > when switching from tty9 to tty0 and back the system locks up. I've > had it before when switching from tty1 to tty0. Anyone with the same > problems ? > > Anyway; Great work on the driver so far :D > I've similar issues and believe it might be due to the amount of kernel printfs that are happening. Can you sysctl debug.wpi=0 and see if the problem still exists? By chance are you using ZFS? I caught a memory modified after free panic in zfs the other day pid was from syslogd. I'm trying to work out if it's related. Cheers, BenjaminReceived on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 20:32:17 UTC
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