patch for intel centrino ?

[George Neville-Neil]

On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:08 , "Cedric GROSS" <cg at cgross.info> wrote:

>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : George Neville-Neil [mailto:gnn at freebsd.org]
>> Envoyé : mardi 27 août 2013 16:23
>> À : Cedric GROSS
>> Cc : freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org; 'Adrian Chadd'
>> Objet : Re: patch for intel centrino ?
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 27, 2013, at 5:28 , "Cedric GROSS" <cg at cgross.info> wrote:
>> 
>>>> De : George Neville-Neil [mailto:gnn at freebsd.org] Envoyé : mardi 27
>>>> août 2013 03:21 À : Adrian Chadd Cc : Cedric GROSS;
>>>> freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org Objet : Re: patch for intel centrino ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 25, 2013, at 7:41 , Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Hello George,
>>> 
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~gnn/iwn.diff
>>> 
>>> You don't use correct firmware for your NIC. It's should be a 2000
>> not 2030.
>>>> 
>>>> If y'all can look at that and make comments that would be helpful.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Try to get correct firmware and test it again.
>>> 
>> (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&
>> do=ge
>>> t&target=iwlwifi-2000-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz)
>>> 
>>> You will need to uncompress it and then uucode firmware, create
>> module
>>> (sys/modules/iwnfw) and so on.
>> 
>> With the 2000 firmware I get a firmware crash:
>> 
>> Aug 27 10:20:12 punk kernel: iwn0: iwn_intr: fatal firmware error
>> Aug 27 10:20:12 punk kernel: firmware error log:
>> Aug 27 10:20:12 punk kernel: error type      = "UNKNOWN" (0x00000038)
>> Aug 27 10:20:13 punk kernel: iwn0: iwn_config: could not configure
>> valid TX chains, error 35
>> Aug 27 10:20:13 punk kernel: iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not configure
>> device, error 35
> 
> Hum.. I nearly sure is because your NIC don't have BT.
> 
> Set advanced_bt_coexist to false within iwn2000_base_params. 
> May be it will not run also but iwn cannot skip BT config for the moment.
> If setting parameter to false doesn't change crash, try to comment  /*
> Configure bluetooth coexistence. */ bloc code in iwn_config. 
> 
> I will do a patch for that later.
> 

I had to #if 0 out the code but now something is happening and the fw is not crashing.
I still cannot associate but am tracking that down via debug from wpa_supplicant.
It does look like it tries to do it, but it just fails  The AP is an Apple Extreme.


Best,
George

wpa_driver_bsd_associate: ssid 'XXX' wpa ie len 22 pairwise 3 group 3 key mgmt 1
wpa_driver_bsd_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
wpa_driver_bsd_set_auth_alg alg 0x1 authmode 1
wpa_driver_bsd_associate: set PRIVACY 1
Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
Authentication with c8:bc:c8:ff:43:c5 timed out.
BSSID c8:bc:c8:ff:43:c5 blacklist count incremented to 2
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED