Intel WiFi 5100/5300

[Glen Barber]

Howdy,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2009, at 09:12, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 21 October 2009 09:29:13 David Horn wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The only new issue I have found so far is that I must manually load
>>>>> iwnfw.ko before loading if_iwn.ko (the module depend used to work on
>>>>> the in-tree driver)

I just had my first bit of quirkiness with my 5100 (console output
below).  The past few days I was spending some time at my local cafe
on battery power without an issue.  No connectivity issues the past
two days, most of which has been on battery power (approximately 1.5
hours each day).  I doubt that is relevant, but I was more intrigued
as the output and connectivity loss occurred on AC power.  I have made
no changes to the system (including source upgrades) since patching
this driver.

>
> Thanks for your work. I hope this can be in HEAD soon.
>

I've been using this on -STABLE, for what it's worth, with no issues
(other than above, which was solved with 'netif restart wlan0'.)

Cheers.

pegasus % uname -a
FreeBSD pegasus 8.0-RC1 FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 #14 r198164M: Mon Oct 19
16:09:19 EDT 2009     root at pegasus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PEGASUS  i386


-- console --
iwn0: need multicast update callback
firmware error log:
  error type      = "SYSASSERT" (0x00000005)
  program counter = 0x00001924
  source line     = 0x00000201
  error data      = 0x0000000000000201
  branch link     = 0x0000191200001912
  interrupt link  = 0x0000090E00000000
  time            = 1619819137
driver status:
  tx ring  0: qid=0  cur=219 queued=0
  tx ring  1: qid=1  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring  2: qid=2  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring  3: qid=3  cur=2   queued=0
  tx ring  4: qid=4  cur=191 queued=0
  tx ring  5: qid=5  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring  6: qid=6  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring  7: qid=7  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring  8: qid=8  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring  9: qid=9  cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 10: qid=10 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 11: qid=11 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 12: qid=12 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 13: qid=13 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 14: qid=14 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 15: qid=15 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 16: qid=16 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 17: qid=17 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 18: qid=18 cur=0   queued=0
  tx ring 19: qid=19 cur=0   queued=0
  rx ring: cur=62
iwn0: need multicast update callback
Oct 21 19:37:44 pegasus su: gbarber to root on /dev/pts/2
Oct 21 19:37:53 pegasus dhclient[4763]: receive_packet failed on
wlan0: Device not configured
Oct 21 19:37:53 pegasus wpa_supplicant[4639]: Failed to disable WPA in
the driver.
Oct 21 19:37:53 pegasus dhclient[4763]: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) on wlan0:
Operation not permitted
Oct 21 19:37:53 pegasus dhclient[4763]: Interface wlan0 no longer appears valid.
Oct 21 19:37:53 pegasus dhclient[4763]: No live interfaces to poll on - exiting.

-- wpa_supplicant.conf --
pegasus % less wpa.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=1

## Home
network={
        ssid=""
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk=""
        priority=42
}

## B&N
network={
        ssid=""
        key_mgmt=NONE
        priority=2
}

## Drexel
network={
        ssid=""
        key_mgmt=NONE
        priority=12
        wep_tx_keyidx=0
        wep_key0=sekrit
}

-- 
Glen Barber