[pir@pir.net: wi HostAP problems with -stable]

[Marko Zec]

On Monday 16 February 2004 17:07, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Marko Zec <zec at tel.fer.hr> probably said:
> > If you do not hardcode the wi driver into the kernel, doing a
> > kldunload / kldload if_wi should do the trick without rebooting.
>
> Ugly and when I tried it yesterday it paniced the machine.
>
> Making sure everything is unconfigured it seems to work sometimes,
> with 1.5.6 firmware, but it's hardly optimal.

It works for me with firmware 1.7.4 without a single panic up to date.

tpx30# uname -a
FreeBSD tpx30 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 13 22:35:05 
CET 2004     marko at tpx30:/u/src-4.9/sys/compile/TPX30  i386
tpx30# kldunload if_wi
tpx30# kldload if_wi
tpx30# dmesg
[snip]
wi0: detached
wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 6 at device 2.0 
on pci1
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:3c:06:9d:1d
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.01.01, Station 1.07.04
tpx30#