Intel 3945ABG with ipw driver on CURRENT

[Mel]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 18:07:48 Pankov Pavel wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 18:51:10 Mel wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 October 2007 10:31:38 Tom Evans wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:55 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > > > On 10/3/07, Frank Staals <frankstaals at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > > Hey,
> > > > >
> > > > > Last week I finally received my Dell Latitude D630 which is using
> > > > > the Intel 3945ABG chipset for it's wireless connectivity. This
> > > > > should be supported with the ipw driver which is available in
> > > > > CURRENT. Unfortunately my card is not detected when loading the
> > > > > module.
> > > >
> > > > If your card is a 3945ABG, then you need the wpi driver, which is not
> > > > included (yet, I hope) in FreeBSD.
> > > >
> > > > Try here:
> > > > http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
> > > >
> > > > Regards.
> > >
> > > This prompted me to give the wpi driver another go. Both the snapshot
> > > 20070923-freebsd-wpi and the version available in perforce fail to
> > > load, due to
> > >   link_elf: symbol _mtx_assert undefined
> > >
> > > FreeBSD version is (csup'ed ~1hr before build time)
> > > FreeBSD zoot.mintel.co.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 
> > > 3 11:47:24 BST 2007    
> > > root at zoot.mintel.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOOT i386
> >
> > Does ZOOT have WITNESS?
> >
> > It loads for me, but locks up machine randomly, sometimes on scan,
> > sometimes on up, sometimes on assigning an IP. It points to the lock set
> > at the end of _init(). Ben knows.
>
> Try this patch, please. It makes wpi absolutely stable for me (it looses
> link sometimes, but it doesn't panic anymore at least:
>
> --- 20070923-freebsd-wpi/sys/dev/wpi/if_wpi.c~	2007-09-23
> 18:21:03.000000000 +0400
> +++ 20070923-freebsd-wpi/sys/dev/wpi/if_wpi.c	2007-09-29 21:31:58.000000000
> +0400
> @@ -725,8 +725,9 @@
>  	ic->ic_newstate = wpi_newstate;
>  	ieee80211_media_init(ic, wpi_media_change, ieee80211_media_status);
>
> -	sc->amrr.amrr_min_success_threshold = 1;
> -	sc->amrr.amrr_max_success_threshold = 15;
> +	ieee80211_amrr_init(&sc->amrr, ic,
> +		IEEE80211_AMRR_MIN_SUCCESS_THRESHOLD,
> +		IEEE80211_AMRR_MAX_SUCCESS_THRESHOLD);
>
>  	/* whilst ieee80211_ifattach will listen for ieee80211 frames,
>  	 * we also want to listen for the lower level radio frames

# ifconfig wpi0 up list scan worked.

# ifconfig wpi0 inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid MYSSID wepmode on 
weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x123456 mode 11g
Read from remote host laptop: Operation timed out

I suspect crash unless routing got screwed. Will have to wait to see what's 
up.
-- 
Mel