From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 08:42:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B7037B401; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9039A43F85; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5LFgDKJ033383; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:42:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)h5LFgDgU033380; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:42:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:42:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: BSDVault In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: imp@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wi driver has WEP issues on both 5.0 and 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:42:37 -0000 I've seen this on my older Wavelan card, but not my more recent PRISM card. If I run with WITNESS compiled in, I don't see it, which suggests a timing issue. This came up at USENIX a couple of times and I know Scott and Warner were discussing potential sources and fixes; Scott noticed there were a lot of card resets in the new code not present previously, so one theory was that we needed a delay for a bit to settle during the reset. I've CC'd Warner and Scott to bug them. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, BSDVault wrote: > A head up about the wi driver in FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I have a netgear > MA-311 card that supports HostAP mode. The issue is that I get a busy bit > error. The exact error starts with the following.. THIS ONLY OCCURS WHEN > WEP IS ENABLED: > > wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc00/0; last status 800b > > We then move on to : > > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. > > This seems to cycle until the next error: > > wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > wi0: mgmt. Buffer allocation failed > > Then back through the entire error sequence again. Eventually the box will > freeze as these errors cycle and then free up again when it starts back at > the timeout error. I was hopeful that the new wi driver in 5.1 would > address this problem as I know several persons with Prism chipsets that have > this very same issue on 5.0 and 5.1. > > Please respond directly as I am not on -current mailing list. > > Thanks > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >