kern/119225: [wi] 7.0-RC1 no carrier with Prism 2.5 wifi card (regression)

[Jonas Wolz]

The following reply was made to PR kern/119225; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jonas Wolz" <jwolz1 at gmail.com>
To: jyrki.k at post.cz, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/119225: [wi] 7.0-RC1 no carrier with Prism 2.5 wifi card (regression)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:04:19 +0100

 I can confirm this bug with a Prism3 chipset and FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.
 
 The relevant dmesg output is:
 wi0: <Intersil Prism3> mem 0xe4006000-0xe4006fff irq 18 at device 11.0 on pci0
 wi0: [ITHREAD]
 wi0: using RF:PRISM3(Mini-PCI)
 wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.5.6)
 wi0: Ethernet address: 00:02:8a:a0:8a:96
 
 "ifconfig wi0 up scan" will sometimes "complete" in a few seconds and
 sometimes take a few minutes but will never show any APs.
 
 An interesting aspect is that if I clear the ssid with "ifconfig wi0
 ssid -" and take the interface up and down repeatedly sometimes the
 ssid of one AP will show up in ifconfig, but there will still be "no
 carrier" (unfortunately I don't know how reproduce this effect
 reliably).