wi0 busy bit won't clear error

[Jesse Guardiani]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 
>> Have you applied the patch to add the DELAY(1) macros after reading the
>> CSR to the wi driver?  It was posted to mobile@ back around Jan. 10 by
>> Marco Zec. Since I installed that patch, I have not had any of these
>> timeout issues.
> 
> You must be talking about this thread:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile/6619
> 
> And this one:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile/6623
> 
> And then another comment by you here:
> 
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile/6644/match=prism+timeout+oberman
> 
> 
> Much of that talk seems to suggest that I need to upgrade my firmware to
> 1.1.1/1.7.4 and then think about installing Marko's patch. He said himself
> at one point that he doesn't think his patch should be committed.
> 
> I'll upgrade to 1.7.4 and see if it solves the problem. Firmware upgrades
> for this card are pretty painless.

Well, it's been two days since I upgraded to 1.7.4 and I haven't seen a single
hicup yet. I'm currently deleting 10,000 messages from one of my IMAP folders
using KMail - an operation that used to grind my wireless connection to a screeching
halt - and not even a single hesitation!

Someday soon I think I'll try out hostAP mode and see how well it works with
5.2.1-RC2 and this firmware.

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