Subject: Re: wi driver issues (still)
To: None <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/29/2002 13:16:03
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David Young <dyoung@ojctech.com> writes:
> Michael,
>
> Please send me ifconfig wi0. Also tell me which version of dev/ic/wi.c
> et cetera you are using.
wi0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
nwid home.flame.org nwkey *****
powersave off
bssid 00:04:5a:0e:f5:b9 chan 6
address: 00:60:1d:f1:46:87
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS11)
status: active
inet 10.42.93.250 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.42.255.255
inet6 fe80::260:1dff:fef1:4687%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
wi.c:
$NetBSD: wi.c,v 1.104 2002/11/18 15:10:22 dyoung Exp $
$NetBSD: wi.c,v 1.104 2002/11/18 15:10:22 dyoung Exp $
wi_ieee.h:
$NetBSD: wi_ieee.h,v 1.19 2002/11/16 06:02:54 dyoung Exp $
$FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/include/if_wavelan_ieee.h,v 1.4 1999/12/29 04:33:01 peter Exp $
wireg.h:
$NetBSD: wireg.h,v 1.42 2002/10/21 11:57:25 soren Exp $
wivar.h:
$NetBSD: wivar.h,v 1.25 2002/11/18 15:10:22 dyoung Exp $
> Are you still seeing device timeouts?
No, once I got interrupts properly working on this box with various
fixup issues, all works well. ACPI seems to have made the most
progress. Sound even works, as do all the PCI devices.
> What computer hosts the Lucent card? What AP are you using?
The laptop has the lucent card.
AP's are WAP-11 and Airport (old, grey one with a lucent card)
although I took the card out of it to try it in the host, so right now
we only have WAP-11's.
> Packet captures taken on a wire are not as useful to me as "on-air"
> captures. What I would prefer are captures taken on the sending wireless
> interface and on the receiving wireless interface.
As I said, they were identical. I did the traces from a linux box
listening to the air, and it returned the same packet as the wire. I
can easily give traces from the wire, not so from the air.
The HOST does not see the problem, in that if I run tcpdump -i wi0,
all looks fine, but the packets are not being transmitted correctly,
sometimes.
There was a change in the 8.10 firmware to fragment 11 Mbps encrypted
packets into smaller chunks, to work around some sort of AP issue.
However, I'm seeing the same loss with the 6.x firmware too, so that's
not the full issue.
- --Michael
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