iwn rtsol on stable/10 with merge from head

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Please grab and try 'iwnstats' from head - tools/tools/iwn/iwnstats -
it'll be interesting to see what stats are logged when you're in busy
air.

I have no idea about rtsold, sorry. :(



-a


On 1 March 2014 09:11, Curtis Villamizar <curtis at ipv6.occnc.com> wrote:
>
> rtsol is not working for my kernel build with iwn but everything else
> works.
>
> I'm running a very recent stable/10 (kernel is 262621) upgraded to
> pick up iwn stuff from head:
>
>   svn merge \
>     https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/iwn \
>     dev/iwn
>   svn merge \
>     https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/modules/iwnfw \
>     modules/iwnfw
>   svn merge
>     https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/contrib/dev/iwn \
>     contrib/dev/iwn
>
> That was to get the Centrino 2000 support from the head branch.
>
> That works.
>
>   iwn0: <Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2200 BGN>
>      mem 0xf1c00000-0xf1c01fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
>
> Everything works as far as I can tell except rtsol.
>
>   # rtsold -f -d -D wlan0
>   checking if wlan0 is ready...
>   wlan0 does not accept Router Advertisement.
>   set timer for wlan0 to 1s
>   New timer is 1s
>   timer expiration on wlan0, state = 3
>   checking if wlan0 is ready...
>   wlan0 does not accept Router Advertisement.
>   set timer for wlan0 to 1s
>   New timer is 1s
>   timer expiration on wlan0, state = 3
>   checking if wlan0 is ready...
>   wlan0 does not accept Router Advertisement.
>   set timer for wlan0 to 1s
>   New timer is 1s
>   [ ... etc ... ]
>
> If I use rtsold -a it sees wlan0 as not ready and doesn't try to use
> it but then it receives occasional RA anyway but ignores them because
> it sees wlan0 as not ready.
>
> If I ifconfig inet6 ... alias I get an IPv6 address configured and
> manually add a default route, then everything is fine.  This
> workaround is OK for home but is not practical for roaming about (like
> going to IETF) if I want IPv6 to work.
>
> Does anyone know why rtsold isn't seeing wlan0 as ready?  Is there any
> info I could provide?  How likely is it that will a kernel built from
> head this would just go away and rtsold would just work.
>
> btw- headed for IETF so I'll have a chance to test iwn in a very busy
> environment and would be willing to help if anyone wants to do that
> sort of debugging.  [I have a usb wlan (run0) as a fallback]
>
> Curtis
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