IWN performance very bad with 10.0-RC5

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Sat Jan 11 08:48:09 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:45:59 -0800
Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Please help dig up which change broke it. Even just test out the head
> iwn code from 6 months ago.

I will try.

One other question. Where do I find the firmware?

Erich
> 
> Adrian
>  On Jan 11, 2014 12:36 AM, "Erich Dollansky"
> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:24:46 -0800
> > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > diff the drivers between 9.x and 10.x; not much has changed.
> > >
> > > Try running the 9.x sys/dev/iwn in 10.x, and make sure you use
> > > the 9.x firmware. see if that fixes it.
> > >
> > it was working on 10 until at least summer/fall of last year. I
> > can't recall the precise date as I moved to cable by change. As it
> > always worked outside, I never bothered to test.
> >
> > I will try to get the sources for 9.
> >
> > Erich
> > >
> > > -a
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10 January 2014 21:23, Erich Dollansky <erich at alogt.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:02:36 -0800
> > > > Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Since upgrading my system to 10.0-RC# and now 10.0-RC5, by
> > > >> wireless performance has severely degraded.
> > > >>
> > > >> iwn0 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x13118086
> > > >> chip=0x00858086 rev=0x34 hdr=0x00
> > > >>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > >>     device     = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
> > > >>     class      = network
> > > >>
> > > > it seems that I have the same hardware and the same problem.
> > > > While a device using run can connect to my access point without
> > > > problems, iwn is not able to connect anymore. But, it connected
> > > > earlier without any problems to other access points. iwn never
> > > > hangs in my case, it is simply not able to connect.
> > > >
> > > > Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
> > > > wlan0: Trying to associate with 90:61:0c:13:36:fe
> > > > (SSID='Sumarni' freq=2437 MHz) wlan0: Associated with
> > > > 90:61:0c:13:36:fe wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
> > > > bssid=90:61:0c:13:36:fe reason=0 wlan0: WPA: 4-Way Handshake
> > > > failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect wlan0:
> > > > CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="Some Name"
> > > > auth_failures=1 duration=10
> > > >
> > > > With the same configuration, run0 connects without problems.
> > > >
> > > > How could I help to fix this problem?
> > > >
> > > > Erich
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