Re: [Madwifi-users] madwifi 0.9.2: (many) unable to reset channel errors

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This older posting might be of help:

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:34 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > I think we need some automatic testing tool that would try to compile
> > madwifi against all kernels in the range.  Too bad I'm very busy now.  I
> > did similar testing for other drivers, but it was manual.
>
> That would be nice, although I personally do not plan to waste my own time
> with 2.4.X kernels at all.

As it turns out, we can go back to 2.4.20 if one more change is made.
CONFIG_CRYPTO should not be required.  Instead, wlan_ccmp should only be
compiled if CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES (or a CPU specific equivalent) is enabled.
This makes sense for the latest kernels as well.

The user should be warned that CCMP won't be available.  That's still OK
for most users.  I don't think TKIP was broken by anyone.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jos Vos" <jo...@xo...>
To: <mad...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:16 AM
Subject:  [Madwifi-users] madwifi 0.9.2: (many) unable to reset channel 
errors

> Hi,
>
> I can't get madwifi 0.9.2 working on a Linux 2.4.20 kernel using a
> Wistron CM9 mini-PC card.  The following scenario occurs:
>
> # modprobe ath_pci
>
> This results in the following kernel messages (looks ok to me):
>
> ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.2)
> ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.2)
> ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.2)
> wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: turboA rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
> wifi0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
> wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
> wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xa0000000, irq=10
>
> # lsmod
>
> (relevant entries, looks ok to me)
>
> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
> wlan_scan_sta          10084   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ath_pci                70092   0  (unused)
> ath_rate_sample        11616   0  [ath_pci]
> wlan                  165592   1  [wlan_scan_sta ath_pci ath_rate_sample]
> ath_hal               186896   1  [ath_pci ath_rate_sample]
>
> # ifconfig ath0 up
>
> (because I want to do a scan afterwards, I need to set the interface
>
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 6 (2437Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 0)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 11 (2462Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 3296796506)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 7 (2442Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 32)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 52 (5260Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 3251837328)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 56 (5280Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 3287907712)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 60 (5300Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 0)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 64 (5320Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 32)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 36 (5180Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 40 (5200Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 44 (5220Mhz) flags 0x140 
> 'EEPROM size not supported' (HAL status 10)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 48 (5240Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 32)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 2 (2417Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 3 (2422Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 4 (2427Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 5 (2432Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 8 (2447Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 3251880288)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 9 (2452Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 1967578267)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 10 (2457Mhz) flags 0xc0 '' 
> (HAL status 0)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 149 (5745Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 3241293874)
> wifi0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 153 (5765Mhz) flags 0x140 '' 
> (HAL status 32)
>
> Especially look at the probably completely garbaged status numbers.
>
> I also tried recent snapshots of the madwifi driver, but they don't
> compile on the 2.4.20 kernel.
>
> For letting the 0.9.2 driver compile on the 2.4.20 kernel, I used a patch
> to add inline definitions of _alloc_netdev and PDE to ath/if_athvar.h,
> which was posted by someone in one of the tickets.
>
> Any help to identify/solve this problem is appreciated,
>
> --
> --    Jos Vos <jo...@xo...>
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