Hello George and Gordon, Gordon Marler ??: >> I noticed the same thing after I sent the ndis1.2.1 >> for posting on the ndis page. I have >> since found and fixed several bugs in ndisapi. The >> version of ndis-1.2.1 on my >> web site contains a new version 1.2.1 of the ndisapi >> as well as the new version of ndiswrapper. This >> should be much more solid. >> >> http://www.palisad.com/solaris/ndis/ndis-1.2.1.tar.gz >> >> George >> > > As you suspected, I was using ndis-1.2.1 (from the Wireless page) already. > The 1.2.1 version from palisad.com is different, and that improves things a > bit. > > PowerTop reports that ndisapi`ntoskrnl_timercall is the source of wakeups 7 - > 20% of the time now, rather than 98% of the time with the "old" 1.2.1 version. > even with "old" 1.2.1, the powertop reports ndisapi`ntoskrnl_timercall is always less than 10% of total wekups, since my test machine has 4 cores inside, dtrace shows the ntoskrnl_timercall is dispatched to 4 cores with a load balance manner... that's the reason I didn't notice it before. Thanks for the fix.
Went through the codes changes in "new" 1.2.1, I think the fix in ndisapi is valid, especially the fix for KeSetTimerEx, somehow, FreeBSD/NDIS still take period as in 100ns unit, but I agree with george's fix since it follows MSDN very well. :-) Now, "new" ndis-1.2.1 was synced to OpenSolaris/NDIS page. Note: v1.2.1 can ony work within build100 - 104, minor changes need to be added in if_ndis.c due to crossbow putback after build105. > The wireless is still about 25% of what it is under Fedora 10 - but it's > certainly usable enough to get what I need to get done - plus NWAM isn't > going crazy anymore. > Looking forward to your next batch of improvements. > me too! > In case I missed it, is using NDIS just a stopgap measure for Broadcom > wireless chipsets, or can we expect to see "native" OpenSolaris drivers in > the foreseeable future? > The wl driver for BCM4312(Broadcom product name, not PCI device id) in Fedora 10 was released by Broadcom since July,2008, it is under GPL license for now. It seems to me we can expect a "native" OpenSolaris driver for BCM43xx in the future... Thanks for your reminding, Gordon. - Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20081222/e880c2bf/attachment.html>
