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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:05:25 +0100
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Etienne Robillard <erob@gthcfoundation.org>
Subject:   Re: wlan/wpi are more broken than 3 weeks.
Message-ID:  <201012270205.25867.bschmidt@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101227003256.GA46611@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20101226195556.GA45505@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <201012262325.05784.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <20101227003256.GA46611@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Monday 27 December 2010 01:32:56 Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:25:05PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > How about providing the info I asked for last time? Now that you have
> > build the necessary options into the kernel you should be able to run
> > with wlandebug 0xffffffff enabled.
> 
> Perhaps, I got busy with real life work, and perhaps,
> I forgot you asked for this info.  In the end, /var/log/messages
> get stuff full of
> 
> Dec 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from
> 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 37 Dec 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel: wlan0: received
> beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 38 Dec 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel:
> wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 40 Dec 26 16:30:04
> laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 34 Dec
> 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b
> rssi 38 Dec 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from
> 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 38 Dec 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel: wlan0: received
> beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 41 Dec 26 16:30:04 laptop kernel:
> wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 40 Dec 26 16:30:04
> laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 32 Dec
> 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b
> rssi 34 Dec 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from
> 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 41 Dec 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel: wlan0: received
> beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 41 Dec 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel:
> wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 40 Dec 26 16:30:05
> laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 37 Dec
> 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b
> rssi 40 Dec 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from
> 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 40 Dec 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel: wlan0: received
> beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 32 Dec 26 16:30:05 laptop kernel:
> wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 35 Dec 26 16:30:05
> laptop kernel: wlan0: received beacon from 00:18:e7:d4:f2:1b rssi 40
> 
> because apparently this message isn't rate limited.  So, perhaps, this
> is the problem?

I don't think so, those messages are usually an indicator for a successful 
connection. AP sends those as a 'hello, i'm still here' kinda thing. You 
should be able to supress those with 'wlandebug 0xffffffff -dumppkts'.

If you can get debug output while the UPs/DOWNs happen, that would help a lot.

-- 
Bernhard



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