Wireless problems on 8.0-RELEASE

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/18/10, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:23:56 +0000
> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/18/10, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The module is loaded at boot time in loader.conf, but I think this
>> > is the message you were looking for:
>> >
>> > ntoskrnl dummy called...
>>
>> I was looking for:
>>
>> no match for IoWMIQueryAllData
>> no match for IoWMIOpenBlock
>>
>> Does message appears only when uploading
>> or just always, after boot is completed
>> but before interface is turned up (via ifconfig)
>>
>
> I've never seen those messages in the dmesg output. Strangely, the only
> method by which I can successfully upload large files is scp.

Here is my test results (another driver/card combination):
With opera and gmail, upload "stuck" at ~32kb but rtorrent and sftp uploads
just fine. Upload of 1.3M file in opera stuck at few kb but it was
complete after
few seconds.

>> You said that 7.2 doesnt have this problem,
>> are you using same SYS and INF files with 8.0 ?
>>
>
> No, because Lenovo released updates for the driver. Both the older
> version of the driver (the one I used on 7.2) and the newest version of
> the driver produce the same problems on 8.0. If you want, I can upload
> the older version of the driver too.

Try to remove line with OID_GEN_CURRENT_LOOKAHEAD in /sys/dev/if_ndis.c,
rebuild and reinstall if_ndis module and see if that helps.

Why are you have tso disabled, does it works with tso enabled?
Are there any other custom sysctl options?

What is signal strength of the AP? And current link speed? (this one
is available only on CURRENT and from my git repo code)
-- 
Paul B Mahol