PRO/wireless scanning

[Max Laier]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:32, Johnny Choque wrote:
> I'm testing the scanning features of Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG build-in
> Toshiba Tecra M3 using FreeBSD 6.1 and iwi-firmware-2.4_7 (I think that
> it is the last version, isn't it?). I have noticed a unstable behavior
> of the wireless interface when I try to scan the access point around it
> (ifconfig iwi0 scan). Sometimes it provide the report of the detected
> access points but sometimes it keep waiting a long time without provide
> any report. Do you have the same behavior with iwi driver and
> iwi-firmware?, do you know how I can find a solution for that?
>
> I have also noticed that the web pages for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
> for FreeBSD (http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html) have
> a watermark that say "discontinued", does mean that there are another
> web or project that will continue to improve the iwi driver and
> iwi-firmware? Do you know any information about that?

Please use iwi(4) from RELENG_6 (soon to be 6.2), which has many 
improvements and bug fixes over the version that was shipped with 6.1.  
Note that it uses the firmware(9) subsystem to load the firmware image, 
so you will have to change to net/iwi-firmware-kmod from ports - as 
described in UPDATING.  The latest firmware version - IIRC is 3.0.

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