Looks like new 802.11 devices need to be pruned from PAE configs

[David Wolfskill]

Looks as if some recent wireless changes are in some conflict with PAE.

Trying to build a kernel but slightly tweaked (added SMP & IPFIREWALL)
from PAE, I see (with sources updated as of Sun Jul 16 03:37:02 PDT 2006):

...
>>> stage 4.4: building everything
...
touch hack.c
cc -shared -nostdlib hack.c -o hack.So
rm -f hack.c
MAKE=/usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh PAE-GENERIC
cc -c -O -pipe  -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fformat-ext
ensions -std=c99 -g -nostdinc -I-  -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/pf -I/usr/sr
c/sys/contrib/dev/ath -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/freebsd -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ngatm -I/usr/src/sys/dev/twa -D_KERNEL -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADE
RS -include opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000  -mno-align-long-strings -
mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -ffreestanding -Werror  vers.c
linking kernel.debug
sample.o(.text+0x15cf): In function `ath_rate_newstate':
/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_rate/sample/sample.c:765: undefined reference to `ieee80211_iterate_nodes'
if_ath.o(.text+0x4f5): In function `ath_attach':
/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:429: undefined reference to `ieee80211_wme_acnames'
if_ath.o(.text+0x9b3):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:593: undefined reference to `ieee80211_ifattach'
if_ath.o(.text+0xa5c):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:611: undefined reference to `ieee80211_media_status'
if_ath.o(.text+0xa67):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:611: undefined reference to `ieee80211_media_init'
if_ath.o(.text+0xa87):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:621: undefined reference to `ieee80211_announce'
if_ath.o(.text+0xb02): In function `ath_detach':
/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:658: undefined reference to `ieee80211_ifdetach'
if_ath.o(.text+0xeab): In function `ath_bmiss_proc':
/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c:871: undefined reference to `ieee80211_beacon_miss'
...
/usr/src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto_wep.c:444: undefined reference to `ieee80211_note'
ieee80211_crypto_wep.o(.text+0x889): In function `wep_modevent':
/usr/src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto_wep.c:487: undefined reference to `ieee80211_crypto_register'
ieee80211_crypto_wep.o(.text+0x8bf):/usr/src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto_wep.c:497: undefined reference to `ieee80211_crypto_unregister'
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP_PAE.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.


I've resolved it locally by the "big hammer" approach of adding the
following to my kernel config:

nodevice        wlan            # 802.11 support
nodevice        wlan_wep        # 802.11 WEP support
nodevice        wlan_ccmp       # 802.11 CCMP support
nodevice        wlan_tkip       # 802.11 TKIP support
nodevice        an              # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs.
nodevice        ath             # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's
nodevice        ath_hal         # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer)
nodevice        ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
nodevice        awi             # BayStack 660 and others
nodevice        ral             # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs.
nodevice        wi              # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs.

But perhaps the PAE kernel config, which currently has:

nodevice        wlan
nodevice        an
nodevice        awi
nodevice        ral
nodevice        wi

could use some of what I had added?

At a guess:
nodevice        wlan_wep
nodevice        wlan_ccmp
nodevice        wlan_tkip
nodevice        ath
nodevice        ath_hal
nodevice        ath_rate_sample

Peace,
david
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