kern/131781: [ndis] ndis keeps dropping the link

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:06:21 +0100
"Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/17/09, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 17:14:07 Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> >> On 2/17/09, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:22:22 +0100
> >> >
> >> > "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131781
> >> >>
> >> >> This one should not happen, 108 rate should get recognized.
> >> >> I will try to reproduce it on CURRENT.
> >> >>
> >> >> To OP, could you try 7 STABLE after 31 Jan? I guess it should not
> >> >> change anything but you never know.
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, I must have copied and pasted the uname output from the wrong
> >> > machine.  This is actually FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #4: Mon Feb 16 16:37:18
> >> > EST 2009 :-)
> >>
> >> miniport dump NDIS_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA for error in
> >> ndis_setstate() for setting OID_802_11_CONFIGURATION.
> >
> > Sorry if I seem slow, but are you asking me to check something there, or
> > just
> > stating what you think the problem is? :-)
> 
> You can add printf() before "ndis_set_info(sc,
> OID_802_11_CONFIGURATION, &config, &len);" in ndis_setstate_80211() to
> check what value for config.nc_dsconfig is by default.

I'll try that shortly.

> Also try changing "sysctl debug.ndis=1" and post console debug ouput again.

This was strange.  If I boot up and enable debugging before I try to
run '/etc/rc.d/netif start ndis0' everything works just fine.  I get an
IP address and stay connected (at least under a light load).  This is
the output:

ndis_newstate: INIT -> INIT
ndis0: NDIS ERROR: c00013a7 (unknown error)
ndis0: NDIS ERROR: c0001392 (unknown error)
Setting BSSID to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Setting ESSID to ""
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis_newstate: INIT -> RUN
ndis0: link state changed to UP
ndis_newstate: RUN -> INIT
Setting channel to 2412000kHz
ndis0: couldn't change DS config to 2412000kHz: 19
Setting BSSID to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Setting ESSID to "Mckella280Front"
ndis0: link state changed to DOWN
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis_newstate: INIT -> RUN
ndis0: link state changed to UP

If I then stop the network on that device, disable debug, and try to
start it up again, I get the same problem as before:

ndis0: couldn't change DS config to 2412000kHz: 19
ndis0: link state changed to DOWN
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis0: link state changed to UP
ndis0: couldn't change DS config to 2412000kHz: 19
ndis0: link state changed to DOWN
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis0: link state changed to UP
ndis0: link state changed to DOWN

If I then stop the network, enable debugging, and start up the network,
the problem persists.  

Adam

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