[Bug 193569] New: [iwn] [wpi] 5GHz association fails on passive channels
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193569
Bug ID: 193569
Summary: [iwn] [wpi] 5GHz association fails on passive channels
Product: Base System
Version: 11.0-CURRENT
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: Needs Triage
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: wireless
Assignee: freebsd-wireless at FreeBSD.org
Reporter: adrian at freebsd.org
The TL;DR is this:
* 5GHz passive channels require the station to hear a beacon from an AP doing
DFS before it transmits anything;
* so net80211 does this;
* then it tries to associate;
* .. and iwn/wpi will just issue a new RXON to associate, clearing the firmware
state
* which includes that it's seen beacons;
* so then it transmits a frame (association request);
* and the firmware immediately fails it with some status code (IWN_TX_*) that
says "nope, need to see a beacon first."
I forget the status code but it's pretty easy to see with 'sysctl
dev.iwn.0.debug=0x1' when associating on a 5GHz channel.
What the linux iwlwifi driver does - and what I think we should do - is this:
* have a per-vap buffer of temporarily failed frames;
* (not per-node; it's not required for this NIC);
* if we see a TX fail for this reason, don't free the mbuf - just append it to
the vap retry queue - and set some flag + channel number;
* upon receiving a beacon notification - if it's for a beacon on the currently
associated channel then schedule a taskqueue to flush that queue;
* .. then flush this queue as appropriate in iwn_newstate().
* .. and make sure the taskqueue is cancelled during state changes,
suspend/resume, etc.
the flush may get complicated - we should flush it if we transition away from
RUN. Just make sure it works. :)
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