From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 02:42:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C869516A417; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:42:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig@xfoil.gank.org) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [69.55.238.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B147513C469; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:42:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig@xfoil.gank.org) Received: by ion.gank.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2082611246; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:42:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:42:43 -0500 From: Craig Boston To: Andrew Thompson Message-ID: <20070724024242.GA69061@nowhere> References: <20070619011908.GA53748@heff.fud.org.nz> <20070620042023.GA17424@nowhere> <4678B1E4.7080909@errno.com> <467ED084.4000002@petri.cc> <46A484CA.8030805@petri.cc> <20070723114821.GA6575@heff.fud.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070723114821.GA6575@heff.fud.org.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:42:45 -0000 On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:48:21PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: > You can test this WIP. Hi, This patch definitely is a big step in the right direction. The first time I booted with the patch, there were so many debug messages spamming the console it made the machine completely unusable (VESA raster console couldn't keep up, heh). After setting debug.ipw=0 things seem to be working much better. I can manually associate with an open AP just fine. Don't have any in range with WEP to try at the moment. The big news however, which I've been holding my breath about since skimming the patch this morning but didn't want to be too hopeful until I actually tried it, is WPA (TKIP) works! That's something that ipw hasn't supported at all until now, so I'm quite excited about it. The first time when I ran wpa_supplicant by hand it seemed to work for a minute, but lost connectivity while dhclient was requesting a lease. It worked long enough to get a NAK response for an old address, but never saw any response to discover requests after that. Manually setting an address didn't help either. ifconfig still showed Associated but no packets were being received. There was an "ipw0: scan suck" message on the console right about this time but nothing else to indicate a problem. After rebooting and letting it happen automatically with the rc scripts it seems to be stable now. I'm not 100% sure how often TKIP changes the key, but I'm certain this has been up and running long enough for it to have rotate a few times at least. Will have to do some more testing to see if the stuck scan was a fluke or if I can reproduce it. Great work! Craig