Wireless adapter associated, rx ok, tx ko

[Sam Leffler]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Sam,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:58:09PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
>>  Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
>>> (Note that setting deftxkey for wi0, does not change anything.)
>>  I don't believe you that setting the key doesn't change anything.  Your 
>>  outbound traffic is being dropped because there is no tx keyid specified.
>>
>>  I note the ral log likewise says you have no deftxkey setup.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  You are right indeed.  It was not obvious to me
> that I should set a tx keyid manually, partly because when setting the
> WEP key, ifconfig(8) assumes key 1 if no index is specified.
> 
> Would it be correct to set the default tx keyid to 1?  On the contrary,
> I will provide an update to the manpage stating setting the default tx
> keyid is mandatory.

Yes, it seems the man page doesn't call out that you need to setup a 
deftxkey in order for outbound traffic to be encrypted when using WEP. 
If you use wpa_supplicant it will do that for you.

Please send me something for ifconfig(8).

> 
> 
> Note that if_ral works now, but I still can't use if_wi.  I suppose this
> is a bug in the driver.

It should work but noone has cared about wi for years so it's entirely 
possible it is broken.

> 
> % jarjarbinks:~:127# sysctl net.wlan.0.debug=0xffffffff
> % net.wlan.0.debug: 0 -> 2147483647
> % jarjarbinks:~:128# dhclient wi0
> % wi0: ieee80211_newstate: RUN -> INIT
> % wi0: ieee80211_ref_node (ieee80211_send_mgmt:1574) 0xc4b68000<XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX> refcnt 3
> % wi0: [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX] send station disassociate (reason 8)
> % [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX] send disassoc on channel 10
> % wi0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix 65535 flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
> % wi0: ieee80211_node_table_reset station table
> % wi0: ieee80211_free_allnodes_locked: free all nodes in station table
> % wi0: node_reclaim: remove 0xc4b68000<XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX> from station table, refcnt 1
> % wi0: ieee80211_setup_node 0xc4b6d000<00:02:2d:4b:b9:20> in station table
> % wi0: _ieee80211_free_node 0xc4b68000<XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX> in <gone> table
> % wi0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix 65535 flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
> % DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> % wi0: ieee80211_newstate: INIT -> RUN
> % wi0: ieee80211_newstate: invalid transition
> % DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> % DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
> 
> As a side note, I can't use wlanstats with wi(4):
> % jarjarbinks:~:113# ifconfig wi0
> % wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> %         ether 00:02:2d:4b:b9:20
> %         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
> %         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
> %         status: associated
> %         ssid XXXXXXXXXXXX channel 10 (2457 Mhz 11b) bssid XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> %         stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
> %         authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit bmiss 7
> %         scanvalid 60
> % jarjarbinks:~:114# wlanstats -ai wi0
> % wlanstats: wi0 (IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO): Invalid argument

This is a bug in wi; it is not properly integrated with net80211.

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> Thanks.
> Regards,