kern/88937: ifconfig ndis do not show the correct mode

João joao at matik.com.br
Sun Nov 13 09:00:29 PST 2005


>Number:         88937
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       ifconfig ndis do not show the correct mode
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 13 17:00:28 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     João
>Release:        6.0-R
>Organization:
Infomatik
>Environment:
FreeBSD anb.matik.com.br 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #5: Thu Nov 10 22:30:42 BRST 2005     hmm at anb.matik.com.br:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/anb  i386

>Description:
              Ifconfig ndis shows connected as 11b when indeed is connected as 11g, it is associated and traffic is normal 

on the client:
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 192.168.2.7
        ether 00:14:a4:0e:b9:fc
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps mode 11b (OFDM/54Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid casa11g channel 1 bssid 00:11:95:c2:2a:70
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS

on the server:
ap6# ifconfig ath0 list stat
ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS ERP
00:14:a4:0e:b9:fc    1    5  54M   34  120    207   6432 ES     0

ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 192.168.2.7
        ether 00:11:95:c2:2a:70
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g <hostap>
        status: associated
        ssid casa11g channel 5 bssid 00:11:95:c2:2a:70
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 51 pureg protmode CTS
        dtimperiod 1 bintval 100

>How-To-Repeat:
              
>Fix:
              fix dont know but you can issue the ifconfig command mode 11g several times and after some tries it appears correct
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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