Re: I think I wounded by Prism card
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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In message: <[email protected]> "Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]> writes: : : I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 running CURRENT as of 12/9/03. On that day I : also updated the firmware on my WiFi card from 1.3.6 to 1.4.9 and my : troubles began. My wireless card starts and associated normally and runs : fine until I start a large transfer (such as an scp of a file of a MB or : so). Then I get the dreaded: : wi0: timeout in wi_cmd -x010b; event status 0x8000 That sucks. I assume no other wi messages before that? And that the - is really a 0 and you typed it in by hand. Was this under heavy load? : At this point the card is dead and I have only been able to recover by : rebooting the system. damn. : I will try backing out the recent changes to if_wi : and rebuild the module ASAP, but I only have wireless available at home, : so that won't be until tonight. I wish I'd seen this earlier, I just committed something to releng_5_2. You might try hard wiring it or something similar. : First, any idea as to whether the recent fixes to wi to correct timeouts : in old firmware versions might have caused this? Or is it a problem with : 1.4 firmware? If it is the firmware, is there any place to find the old : firmware to back it off? http://www.netgate.com/ has old images. : wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 : wi0: 802.11 address 00:05:3c:02:43:2d : wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) : wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9) : wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps This should be a fairly good card to have. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"