Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:50:08 GMT From: Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/141861:[wi] data garbled with WEP and wi(4) with Prism 2.5 Message-ID: <201109171750.p8HHo83U000913@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/141861; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, bruce.lilly@gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/141861:[wi] data garbled with WEP and wi(4) with Prism 2.5 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:23:07 -0500 Problem duplicated on FreeBSD 8.2 and wi(4) driving a NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC Card on a AMD K6-2. kernel: wi0: <NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0 No packets are transmitted according to tcpdump -n on another machine using the iwi(4) driver. Also, wlandebug -i wlan0 debug+dumppkts+crypto+assoc+auth shows association activity, but no packets transmitted after this point: kernel: wlan0: send probe req on channel 10 bssid ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ssid "xxxxxxxx" kernel: wlan0: send probe req on channel 10 bssid ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ssid ""wlan0: received probe_resp from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx rssi 52 kernel: kernel: wlan0: received probe_resp from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx rssi 52 kernel: wlan0: received beacon from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx rssi 52 Sep 17 12:06:37 last message repeated 3 times kernel: wlan0: associated with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ssid "xxxxxxxx" channel 6 start 1Mb kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP Does this chipset have built-in WEP? Can we turn that off and use the (slower) software wlan_wep instead? --- Zach
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