ipw(4) breaking under load

[doug]

I am using ipw on thinkpad t42p. Last night while updating the ports tree I got 
an error which disconnected the cvsup. Restarting worked fine. I assumed it was 
signal strength or noise at the time. I will monitor this more closely. My 
recurring problem is all ssh connections are locked when the dhcp lease expires 
and the system is idle. I am not currently on the laptop so I can not document 
the versions I am using. I built the driver a few days ago and downloaded the 
Intel 2100 firmware at that time.

Other than the above it has worked fine for me.

Doug.

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:

> Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
>>> is it just me, or is no one actually using ipw(4) under 6.1? Anyway, I
>>> set up a FreeBSD based AP using an ural(4) device. I'm connecting to it
>>> via laptop and ipw(4). This works fine, as long as you don't push it.
>>>
>>> Transferring some files via NFS gives me a lousy 100kB/s transfer rate,
>>> which quickly stalls and the connection wedges. Syslog reports:
>>> May 19 17:29:48 roadrunner kernel: ipw0: fatal error
>>
>> I've got this error with the iwi driver too (Intel 2200 BG). But not often
>> (one or two times a week). It seems not related to the network load for me.
>
> Normal network traffic works just fine for me. Several SSH session, http
> traffic, pings etc.
>
> Only when pushing it, it quickly stalls.
>
> Ulrich Spoerlein
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