On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Johannes Hofmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Sepherosa Ziehau <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Johannes Hofmann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using the iwi driver with wpa successfully on my Thinkpad T42p for >>> quite while now with WPA enabled. >>> During but I'm always seeing: >>> >>> iwi0: fatal error >>> iwi0: wake firmware monitor >>> iwi0: reset firmware >>> >>> And then things work fine. Is this expected? >>> Also in some cases (about 1 of 50 boots) the iwi0 device seems to >>> hang (no network traffic going through. A reboot helps. >>> >>> All this is not urgent of course, but I thought I should mention it. >>> Are there any plans to update the iwi driver? I could try to help. >> >> I wanted to rewrite it for a long time, but never find enough time >> after I whacked ipw(4) :P >> Would you be interested? :) > > Interested yes, but it seems that you have rewritten iwl from scratch. > I could try to port something over from another BSD, but a complete > rewrite is a bit too much for me I guess :)
OK :). You could take a look at FreeBSD's iwi. They did a great job to improve the driver's state. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
