Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-24 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 24/05/2010 05:44, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:18:30 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:18:30 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05,

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-22 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 23:38, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older

if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems really just are the tip of the iceberg: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144898 A notebook without wireless is really just a portable workstation. I've seen a lot of commits to other wireless drivers in recent months. So

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very stable on 8-STABLE.) For most notebooks, I bought Atheros based MiniPCI(e)

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote: Note that not all laptops will play nicely with different wifi cards. My old HP laptop would not boot up past the BIOS if you replaced the wifi card with one not in its magic list, which I found out after I had

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no e). Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card in many IBM Thinkpad Laptops have a custom firmware, and

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:26:42 +0200 From: Christian Walther cptsa...@gmail.com Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no e). Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card in

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no e). Yes, and replacing this card is