[iwn] 6235 support, initial patch

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 9 19:35:52 UTC 2013


There, fixed in r259135.

On 9 December 2013 11:34, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Oh wait, I'm still using 17.x firmware? Let me fix that. I must not
> have committed it.
>
> -a
>
> On 9 December 2013 01:03, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>>
>> On 07.12.2013 22:21, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's some fixes from mav, shoehorned into the current driver framework.
>>>
>>> Mav - where'd you get your changes from?
>>
>>
>> It was long ago. I would guess that from you. :)
>>
>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/iwn/20131207-iwn-6235-1.diff
>>>
>>> This enables the 6235.
>>>
>>> It now doesn't firmware panic upon startup. I've passed _no_ traffic
>>> through it though - I don't have pigtails for the connectors on my
>>> NIC. Sorry :(
>>>
>>> I've added in mav's changes but I've done it by adding a new 6235
>>> config / limits section rather than hacking up the existing 6000g2b
>>> section. I don't know what effect it'll have on the existing NICs. So
>>> I didn't want to change that behaviour.
>>>
>>> This is against the latest -HEAD.
>>
>>
>> I've updated to the latest HEAD including only your patch and immediately
>> got firmware crash during boot:
>>
>> firmware: 'iwn6000g2bfw' version 0: 460912 bytes loaded at
>> 0xffffffff81a120c0
>> iwn0: iwn_intr: fatal firmware error
>> firmware error log:
>>   error type      = "UNKNOWN" (0x000019B6)
>>   program counter = 0x00014DD0
>>   source line     = 0x000002E2
>>   error data      = 0x000000010000008C
>>   branch link     = 0x00014DC200014DC2
>>   interrupt link  = 0x0000CFE200000000
>>   time            = 26892
>> driver status:
>>   tx ring  0: qid=0  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  1: qid=1  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  2: qid=2  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  3: qid=3  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  4: qid=4  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  5: qid=5  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  6: qid=6  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  7: qid=7  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  8: qid=8  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  9: qid=9  cur=2   queued=0
>>   tx ring 10: qid=10 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 11: qid=11 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 12: qid=12 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 13: qid=13 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 14: qid=14 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 15: qid=15 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 16: qid=16 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 17: qid=17 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 18: qid=18 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 19: qid=19 cur=0   queued=0
>>   rx ring: cur=2
>> iwn0: iwn5000_post_alive: crystal calibration failed, error 35
>> iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not initialize hardware, error 35
>> firmware: 'iwn6000g2bfw' version 0: 460912 bytes loaded at
>> 0xffffffff81a120c0
>> iwn0: iwn_intr: fatal firmware error
>> firmware error log:
>>   error type      = "UNKNOWN" (0x000019B6)
>>   program counter = 0x00014DD0
>>   source line     = 0x000002E2
>>   error data      = 0x000000010000008C
>>   branch link     = 0x00014DC200014DC2
>>   interrupt link  = 0x0000CFE200000000
>>   time            = 26907
>> driver status:
>>   tx ring  0: qid=0  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  1: qid=1  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  2: qid=2  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  3: qid=3  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  4: qid=4  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  5: qid=5  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  6: qid=6  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  7: qid=7  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  8: qid=8  cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring  9: qid=9  cur=2   queued=0
>>   tx ring 10: qid=10 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 11: qid=11 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 12: qid=12 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 13: qid=13 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 14: qid=14 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 15: qid=15 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 16: qid=16 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 17: qid=17 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 18: qid=18 cur=0   queued=0
>>   tx ring 19: qid=19 cur=0   queued=0
>>   rx ring: cur=2
>> iwn0: iwn5000_post_alive: crystal calibration failed, error 35
>> iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not initialize hardware, error 35
>>
>> Adding usual -ht40 option didn't change anything.
>>
>> Then I switched from default 6000g2b firmware 17.168.5.2 to 18.168.6.1,
>> which I was using before. With -ht40 flag am able to connect and write this
>> letter. Without the flag card can't associate with AP:
>>
>> Dec  9 10:43:37 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: Authentication with
>> 56:04:a6:d3:65:30 timed out.
>> Dec  9 10:43:37 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
>> bssid=56:04:a6:d3:65:30 reason=3 locally_generated=1
>> Dec  9 10:43:41 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: Trying to associate with
>> 56:04:a6:d3:65:30 (SSID='mavhome5' freq=5180 MHz)
>> Dec  9 10:43:41 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: Associated with
>> 56:04:a6:d3:65:30
>> Dec  9 10:43:41 mavbook kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
>> Dec  9 10:43:41 mavbook dhclient[1313]: send_packet: No buffer space
>> available
>> Dec  9 10:43:42 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
>> bssid=56:04:a6:d3:65:30 reason=0
>> Dec  9 10:43:42 mavbook kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Dec  9 10:43:45 mavbook dhclient[1313]: send_packet: Invalid argument
>> Dec  9 10:43:47 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: Trying to associate with
>> 56:04:a6:d3:65:30 (SSID='mavhome5' freq=5180 MHz)
>> Dec  9 10:43:55 mavbook dhclient[1313]: send_packet: Network is down
>> Dec  9 10:43:57 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: Authentication with
>> 56:04:a6:d3:65:30 timed out.
>> Dec  9 10:43:57 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
>> bssid=56:04:a6:d3:65:30 reason=3 locally_generated=1
>> Dec  9 10:43:57 mavbook wpa_supplicant[467]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0,
>> arg_len=7]: Can't assign requested address
>> Dec  9 10:43:59 mavbook dhclient[1313]: send_packet: Network is down
>>
>> Should I collect any other debugging?
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Motin


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