Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 DIY Bug Fix

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 23 January 2010 8:44:26 pm Sam Leffler wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday 22 January 2010 3:59:10 am Jens Thiede wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. However, I think I might be able to create  
> >> a patch for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 bug (http://bit.ly/7SWIQr).
> >>
> >> Seems likely that there's simply a callback missing. I take it the API  
> >> might have changed a little lately. Is there documentation for the  
> >> wireless networking API? Or is that simply something that I have to  
> >> figure out myself? Also, is there a relevant channel on Freenode where  
> >> I could ask short questions? I'd really like to have this driver  
> >> working.
> >>
> >> All help is much appreciated. 
> > 
> > I think the folks who work on the wireless drivers are usually more active on 
> > the mobile@ list, so you can try asking there.   Also, was this broken by the 
> > recent MFC to 8 of iwn(4)?
> > 
> 
> No, this is a longstanding issue w/ not having proper support for
> IFF_ALLMULTI (sic?).

The multicast message is a red herring.  If you look at the PR at the URL
above the actual bug is a failure to associate.  It claims that this is a
regression from 7 I believe where the card could associate ok under 7, but
not under 8.

-- 
John Baldwin