kern/109227: ral(4) driver doesn't handle correctly RT2561C PCI chipsets - didn't work

[matt.guegan at free.fr]

The following reply was made to PR kern/109227; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matt.guegan at free.fr
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, matt.guegan at free.fr
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/109227: ral(4) driver doesn't handle correctly RT2561C PCI chipsets - didn't work
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:06:28 +0100

 Hi again,
 
 I've made additional debug informations, and with the following command I can
 _sometimes_ see my AP (ssid : myssid)
 
 # while :; do ifconfig ral0 scan; done | grep myssid
 myssid        00:06:f4:f6:ae:11   10   11M 114:0   100 EPS
 
 I've tried to set the debug mode and seen what happens :
 
 when "myssid" is detected :
 
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_next_scan: chan 10->10
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_newstate: SCAN -> SCAN
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_ref_node (ieee80211_send_probere
 q:1004) 0xc4ce3000<00:19:5b:23:10:88> refcnt 2
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: [ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff] send probe req on chan
 nel 10
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: received probe_resp from 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11
  rssi 114
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_setup_node
 0xc4ce0400<00:06:f4:f6:ae:11> in scan table
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] new probe_resp on chan 10 (b
 ss chan 10) "myssid"
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] caps 0x31 bintval 100 erp 0x
 0
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: received beacon from 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11 rss
 i 115
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] beacon on chan 10 (bss chan
 10) 0x00
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: received beacon from 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11 rss
 i 114
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] beacon on chan 10 (bss chan
 10) 0x00
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_cancel_scan: end active scan
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: notify scan done
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0:   macaddr          bssid         chan  rss
 i rate flag  wep  essid
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: + 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11   10   114
  11M   ess  wep  "wireless"
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: _ieee80211_free_node
 0xc4ce3000<00:19:5b:23:10:88> in <gone> table
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix 65535
  flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_newstate: SCAN -> AUTH
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_ref_node (ieee80211_send_mgmt:11
 14) 0xc4ce0400<00:06:f4:f6:ae:11> refcnt 3
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] send auth on channel 10
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: received auth from 00:06:f4:06:bf:0f rssi
 114
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] recv auth frame with a
 lgorithm 0 seq 2
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_newstate: AUTH -> ASSOC
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_ref_node (ieee80211_send_mgmt:11
 14) 0xc4ce0400<00:06:f4:f6:ae:11> refcnt 4
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: [00:06:f4:f6:ae:11] send assoc_req on channel 10
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: ieee80211_newstate: INIT -> SCAN
 Feb 19 19:21:38 beastie kernel: ral0: begin active scan in 11g mode, scangen 181
 ...
 
 So we can see different modes : INIT - SCAN - AUTH - ASSOC and loop to INIT ...
 but RUN mode doesn't appear
 
 and 95% of time, the adapter always did INIT SCAN SCAN SCAN ... INIT :
 Feb 19 19:21:40 beastie kernel: ral0:   macaddr          bssid         chan  rss
 i rate flag  wep  essid
 Feb 19 19:21:40 beastie kernel: - 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11 00:06:f4:f6:ae:11   10   115
  11M   ess  wep  0x00!
 
 note the "0x00!"