Sepherosa Ziehau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, said on Thu Sep 01, 2005 [08:26:21 AM]:
} The info intr seems lost. Try using wicontrol to squeeze more
} information out of wi. If you have time, please compile kernel with
} DEVICE_POLLING support, setup wi to use polling and see whether this
} works for you.
Thanks for sticking with me :) I recompiled the kernel and enabled polling,
then did as
you suggested. The results are below. One thing that stands out is that in
the first
``wicontrol'', the "Current BSSID" does match the MAC addr of my base station.
In the
subsequent wicontrol (after I did some ifconfig stuff to tell it to go find any
station)
that value reverted to 44:44:44....
The debug output and pattern is identical with polling on as when using
interrupts.
When I ifconfig the interface up, I get no messages. When I ifconfig it down,
I get the
wi_newstate INIT -> INIT
ieee80211_newstate: INIT -> INIT
lines. I can repeat that as often as desired; ifconfig up => no messages
ifconfig up then
later down => the INIT -> INIT pair above.
Here's a transcript, edited to better space the lines out. The AP is operating
at this point
with WEP turned off, access control turned off, and is broadcasting its SSID.
laptop# sysctl debug.ieee80211=2
debug.ieee80211: 0 -> 2
laptop# sysctl hw.wi.debug=2
hw.wi.debug: 0 -> 2
laptop# sysctl kern.polling.enable=2
kern.polling.enable: 0 -> 2
laptop# ifconfig wi0 ssid linksys up
[ I waited about a minute here to give it time to do its thing ]
laptop# ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=40<POLLING>
ether 00:05:5d:f2:c1:50
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
status: no carrier
ssid linksys 1:linksys
stationname "DragonFly WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
laptop# wicontrol
NIC serial number: [ 001214004756 ]
Station name: [ DragonFly WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ linksys ]
Current netname (SSID): [ linksys ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ linksys ]
Current BSSID: [ 00:0f:66:18:d5:90 ]
Channel list: [ 7ff ]
IBSS channel: [ 6 ]
Current channel: [ 6 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 91 138 0 ]
dBm Coms Quality: [ ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ]
MAC address: [ 00:05:5d:f2:c1:50 ]
TX rate (selection): [ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2312 ]
Create IBSS: [ Off ]
Access point density: [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
PRI Identity: [ 21 0 0 3 ]
STA Identity: [ 31 2 0 8 ]
Card ID register: [ 8008 1 1 0 ]
Temperature Range: [ 1 ]
WEP encryption: [ Off ]
TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ]
laptop# wicontrol -o
Transmitted unicast frames: 0
Transmitted multicast frames: 0
Transmitted fragments: 0
Transmitted unicast octets: 0
Transmitted multicast octets: 0
Single transmit retries: 0
Multiple transmit retries: 0
Transmit retry limit exceeded: 0
Transmit discards: 0
Transmit discards due to wrong SA: 0
Received unicast frames: 0
Received multicast frames: 0
Received fragments: 0
Received unicast octets: 0
Received multicast octets: 0
Receive FCS errors: 0
Receive discards due to no buffer: 0
Can't decrypt WEP frame: 0
Received message fragments: 0
Received message bad fragments: 0
laptop# wicontrol -n ANY -p 1
wicontrol: warning: flag n deprecated, migrate to ifconfig ssid
laptop# ifconfig wi0 ssid ANY
[ waited a minute or so ]
laptop# wicontrol
NIC serial number: [ 001214004756 ]
Station name: [ DragonFly WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ ANY ]
Current netname (SSID): [ ANY ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ ANY ]
Current BSSID: [ 44:44:44:44:44:44 ]
Channel list: [ 7ff ]
IBSS channel: [ 6 ]
Current channel: [ 6 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 27 27 ]
dBm Coms Quality: [ ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ]
MAC address: [ 00:05:5d:f2:c1:50 ]
TX rate (selection): [ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2312 ]
Create IBSS: [ Off ]
Access point density: [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
PRI Identity: [ 21 0 0 3 ]
STA Identity: [ 31 2 0 8 ]
Card ID register: [ 8008 1 1 0 ]
Temperature Range: [ 1 ]
WEP encryption: [ Off ]
TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ]
laptop# ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=40<POLLING>
ether 00:05:5d:f2:c1:50
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
status: no carrier
ssid ANY 1:ANY
stationname "DragonFly WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
laptop# exit
--
Jon Hamilton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
