Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 DIY Bug Fix

[Jens Thiede]

On 24 Jan 2010, at 3:42 AM, Sam Leffler wrote:

> Jens Thiede wrote:
>> Thank you, I'll take that into account.
>>
>> Something must have changed from 7.0. Is there a documented API for
>> NICs? It would help to know what's new and what's not
>
> There is documentation for the net80211 subsystem in section 9 of the
> man pages.
>
> , since I'm new to
>> FreeBSD. Or is there just code and no documentation?
>>
>> Jens
>>
>> On 23 Jan 2010, at 7:28 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:54:07 +0200
>>> Jens Thiede <jensthiede at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. However, I think I might be able to  
>>>> create
>>>> a patch for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 bug (http://bit.ly/7SWIQr).
>>>>
>>>> Seems likely that there's simply a callback missing. I take it  
>>>> the API
>>>
>>> Please note: I have seen the message "need multicast update  
>>> callback"
>>> on other nics (not ipw) under 8.0-stable, and those nics work, so I
>>> don't think that this message tells you why the ipw 2100 doesn't  
>>> work.
>
> This diagnostic indicates the driver lacks support to push multicast
> filtering to the h/w.  This can be fixed either by fixing the driver  
> (if
> the h/w is capable) or by adding s/w multicast filtering support in  
> the
> kernel to handle it instead.  When the latter is done then the  
> net80211
> code can be changed to enable that functionality when the driver lacks
> support for pushing the multicast list into the h/w.
>
> This issue has been discussed numerous times but noone has stepped  
> up to
> fix the ALLMULTI support.
>
> 	Sam

Well, I'll see what I can do about the 2100 problem, though, I don't  
know if I'll have any success.

Thanks greatly for pointing me to the documentation.

Jens.