New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers

[Max Laier]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:47, dima wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > the new version at:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/20060315.both.tgz
> >
> > should build for RELENG_6 and HEAD.  Make sure to have the latest
> > RELENG_6 checkout with the taskqueue changes.
> >
> > This version supports version 3.0 and version 2.4 firmware.  From iwi_fw
> > you can build and install either version.  For 3.0 just #make all
> > install, for 2.4: #make IWI_FW_VERSION=240 all install  This shouldn't
> > make a difference, though.
> >
> > "cmd 0x19" is WME config, by the way.  It seems the firmware doesn't like
> > the sequence we setup the card.
> >
> > Please keep testing and post your feedback - thanks.
>
> The new driver didn't pass cvsup test at my laptop :(
> It fails large file upload either.
>
> It's definitely a flow control problem. Is taskqueue designed to address
> this?

We found that this problem is completely unrelated to iwi, but a general 
problem with software encryption in net80211.  This should be fixed with 
ieee80211_output.c rev. 1.40 and will be MFCed shortly.  Note that this uses 
m_unshare, which also is not yet in RELENG_6.

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