Re: ipw status (was: wireless)

From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:30:30 +1300
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:37:26AM +0200, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote:
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
> 
> >>Are there any news on this matter ? We are now 1 month closer to beta 
> >>and ipw is still useless. I'm willing to test if anyone have patches but 
> >>I don't have time to look at code myself.
> >
> >You can test this WIP.
> >
> >cheers,
> >Andrew
> 
> Hi Andrew
> 
> This is definately a step in the right direction.. This mail is sent 
> over my ipw card which haven't been used for a month :)
> 
> My initial tests shows 2 things :
> 
> 1) Firmware fails to load automatically
> 
> 2) After a random period of a couple of minutes and more I get 
> disconnected and a ifconfig ipw0 down up fixes it.

Thanks for the report, attached is an updated patch for ipw(4) that
seems to work very well. Please give it a spin.


Andrew

Received on Mon Oct 01 2007 - 18:30:41 UTC

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