Re: Cisco mini-PCI cards with the latest firmware
Doug Ambrisko <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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Jake Khuon writes: | ### On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:44:55 -0800 (PST), Doug Ambrisko | ### <[email protected]> casually decided to expound upon Joe Marcus | ### Clarke <[email protected]> the following thoughts about "Re: Cisco | ### mini-PCI cards with the latest firmware": | | DA> Joe Marcus Clarke writes: | DA> | I'm curious if there are any known issues with the -CURRENT an driver, | DA> | and the Cisco Aironet mini-PCI cards running the latest firmware? I | DA> | have seen some emails in December, but I wanted to confirm if there was | DA> | still an issue on -CURRENT? Thanks. | DA> | DA> If you use older firmware (ie. firmware before they started to use TX Copy ) | DA> then it works okay in -CURRENT. In 5.2 there was some #ifdef HACK code | DA> that tried to deal with the TX Copy stuff but it had negative effect on | DA> the older firmware. So it should work okay. Getting the information | DA> I need to fix it still hasn't happened and I haven't got lucky with | DA> my experiemnts :-( | | At what point did they start doing the TX copy stuff? I and others running | 5.00.01 are seeing some problems with the card hanging or timing out. I've | also had the system crash on me. This does indeed seem to happen when | signal quality gets low and/or lots of network activity is happening. Not sure. If you find out let me know. I've been using MPI350v50001.IMG. It works in my testing without those issues. That could be a firmware bug. Normally a firmware upgrade would fix that but not in this case. | When you say the HACK code had detrimental effects on older firmware, are | you also implying that it works fine with newer firmware? In other words, | would upgrading the firmware to the latest and #define'ing the HACK allow | things to work properly? Nope just makes the newer firmware work somewhat better. I do have an idea that might make things better but haven't tried it yet. If Cisco would give me more information then I might not have to guess at things :-( My guessing hasn't been very productive in this case. Doug A. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"