From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 03:18:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D37768 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BFE8FC14 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA275081A for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:18:29 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless Networking Bug(s) in 9.1-RC2 (?) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:18:29 -0700 Message-ID: <15066.1350443909@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:18:38 -0000 Greerings, I am currently running 9.1-RC2 on my laptop, and I'm wondering what the proper procedure is for reporting bugs in not-yet-released releases. Could somebody please tell me? Should I just file a regular PR? (I've never done this before for anything that's not an official -RELEASE, and I don't want to be busting anybody's chops over something that isn't considered ready-for-prine-time anyway.) So anyway, I'll give the issue to you in a nutshell... This laptop has both wired ethernet and wireless (11{b,g,n}) capabilities. I have a Linksys E1000 which I had this thing successfully talking to/with (using 11n) under 9.0-RELEASE. (The Linksys is set to speak `N-Only'.) Now however, it does appear to me that in 9.1-RC2 there may perhaps be a problem which is causing the iwn0 interface to want to speak to the Linksys using 11b, of all things. (I would have though that if it was giving up on `N' it would have fallen back to `G' next.) I include below relevant portions of my /etc/rc.conf file and the output I am now getting from ifconfig -a. Guidance would be appreciated. Should I be filing a PR? Is my rc.conf goofed? Regards, rfg P.S. Actually, I've never tried running _both_ the wired & wireless stuff on this laptop in parallel before now. Is that part of the problem? And anyway, how exactly does the system establish a default route to 192.168.1.1 when there are two (or more) ways to get there from here? rc.conf: ============================================================================= hostname="slim.tristatelogic.com" ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" # wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA inet 192.168.1.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid ronair2-1" ============================================================================= ifconfig -a: ============================================================================= re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b ether 00:24:21:65:ad:a0 inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::224:21ff:fe65:ada0%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=29 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active iwn0: flags=8803 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18 nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b status: associated lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=600003 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 nd6 options=21 wlan0: flags=8803 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18 inet 192.168.1.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0xb nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid ronair2-1 channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b) country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy OFF txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 1 wme roaming MANUAL bintval 0 =============================================================================