Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 DIY Bug Fix

[Sam Leffler]

John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.
> 

ipw was documented as broken in the 8.0 release notes.

	Sam