Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:18:07 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/131781: [ndis] ndis keeps dropping the link Message-ID: <20090219161807.63efaaa5@thorn.ashke.com> In-Reply-To: <20090219055035.1ff55f19@memory.visualtech.com> References: <200902171720.n1HHKkIf071491@freefall.freebsd.org> <3a142e750902171414p438d184bl54a1569e27490634@mail.gmail.com> <200902171727.53156.adamk@voicenet.com> <3a142e750902180306x390fd549led076474f4fae06b@mail.gmail.com> <20090218080420.681788d2@memory.visualtech.com> <3a142e750902180733o679b050ck8d9287f0bdd860e7@mail.gmail.com> <20090218111223.4483b923@memory.visualtech.com> <3a142e750902181027q25863f39ycc342d6506949eb9@mail.gmail.com> <20090218134935.14f0a8c2@memory.visualtech.com> <20090218142659.135a73bc@memory.visualtech.com> <3a142e750902181610h65f23d13vfeb20cc19ea0944a@mail.gmail.com> <20090218194810.075e0c7c@sorrow.ashke.com> <20090219055035.1ff55f19@memory.visualtech.com>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:50:35 -0500 Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:48:10 -0500 > Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:10:08 +0100 > > "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 2/18/09, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote: > > > > --- if_ndis.c 2009-01-31 00:22:11.000000000 -0500 > > > > +++ if_ndis.c.orig 2009-02-18 14:03:30.000000000 -0500 > > > > @@ -2459,6 +2459,11 @@ > > > > bzero((char *)&config, len); > > > > config.nc_length = len; > > > > config.nc_fhconfig.ncf_length = sizeof(ndis_80211_config_fh); > > > > + > > > > + device_printf(sc->ndis_dev, "couldn't change " > > > > + "Testing config.nc_dsconfig: %u \n", > > > > + config.nc_dsconfig); > > > > + > > > > rval = ndis_get_info(sc, OID_802_11_CONFIGURATION, &config, &len); > > > > > > printf should be bellow ndis_get_info() and above ndis_set_info(). > > > > Alright, I've moved the printf down a few lines and recompiled. > > > > > Does same problem happens when not using WPA eg. wpa_supplicant? > > > > It's actually been running just fine since I got home. I'm still using > > wpa_supplicant, but with WEP instead of WPA. This has been about four > > hours. Not much network traffic, but certainly more than what causes > > the problem at work. > > > > I'm going to let it continue to run through the night. I have a cron > > job setup to transfer several 800 meg files to this laptop via scp, so > > it'll be interesting to see if that works over this driver. > > > > Tomorrow morning, when I get into work, I'll grab the debug output > > again, this time with the printf (hopefully) in the correct place. > > Looks like config.nc_dsconfig is 2462000 > > The wireless connection stayed up all night, even while transferring > over 2 gigs of data via scp. The problem appears to be specific to > this AP using WPA. I can try WPA on my home network in about 10 hours > to see if the same happens there. When I switched my home network to use WPA I started to have the same problems as with the WPA network at work. config.nc_dsconfig still reads 246200. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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