Re: [Madwifi-devel] BSD port -- seems to work

[Ramon C. <cas...@in...>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> this should be fixed in release -6.



gandalf net80211# diff -ur ieee80211-mod.c.old ieee80211-mod.c
--- ieee80211-mod.c.old 2003-10-23 14:41:24.528910848 +0200
+++ ieee80211-mod.c     2003-10-23 14:42:05.748644496 +0200
@@ -46,12 +46,7 @@
 module_exit(exit_wlan);

 #ifndef __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT
-#define __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT(_m)                     \
-    if (!try_module_get(_m)) {                  \
-        printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: try_module_get failed\n",  \
-            ic->ic_dev.name);               \
-        return (ENODEV);                    \
-    }
+#define __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT(_m)     try_module_get(_m)
 #define __MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT(_m)     module_put(_m)
 #endif




wlan: no version magic, tainting kernel.
wlan: 0.7.1.1-mathieu-6 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.5.11 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
ath_pci: 0.8.3.2-mathieu-6 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
ath_debug: 0
divert: allocating divert_blk for ath0
11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:05:4e:40:22:0a



Still, it does not associate.

for a couple of seconds, it stayed in a 2.5GHz Channel, it got the MAC
address of the AP but the ESSID was just "" (please note that our ESSID
may contain spaces). Later, it just keept on changing channels.



ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.18GHz  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          Bit Rate:6Mb/s   Tx-Power:off   Sensitivity=3D0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:60/154  Noise level:0/154
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


* unloaded modules, reloaded wlan with=20

 net80211# insmod ./wlan.ko ieee80211_debug=3D1

wait a couple of seconds

ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"p-=A8o[o[=B8=CC=CCH (k"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point:=20
03:28:E8:9E:03:00
          Bit Rate:0kb/s   Tx-Power:off   Sensitivity=3D0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:152/154  Noise level:0/154
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0


echo 1 > /proc/net/wlan/debug=20
(I was not sure if this was the right command to issue :))

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5539c000
 printing eip:
021b0301
*pde =3D 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<021b0301>]    Tainted: PF  VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202
EIP is at vsscanf+0x24/0x3d6
eax: 439afd24   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 358fd0e0
esi: 5539c000   edi: 2da0ff54   ebp: 00000002   esp: 2da0ff18
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process bash (pid: 25928, threadinfo=3D2da0e000 task=3D316e2040)
Stack: 5539c000 00000001 00000000 2d8e4b20 00000000 358fd0e0 358fd100=20
00000002
       021b06c5 5539c000 439afd24 2da0ff54 439a8a9a 5539c000 439afd24=20
2da0ff64
       ffffffea 2da0e000 2fbeca00 31f45360 02175222 358fd0e0 5539c000=20
00000002
Call Trace:
 [<021b06c5>] sscanf+0x12/0x19
 [<439a8a9a>] ieee80211_stats_detach+0x81/0xa9 [wlan]
 [<02175222>] proc_file_write+0x2b/0x2f
 [<0214de15>] vfs_write+0x96/0xc0
 [<0214dead>] sys_write+0x2b/0x43

Code: ff ff ff 83 c4 0c c3 55 57 56 53 83 ec 10 8b 44 24 28 c7 44 24 08 00=
=20
00 00 00 8b 7c 24 2c 8b 74 24 24 80 38 00 0f 84 a6 03 00 00 <80> 3e 00 0f=
=20
84 9d 03 00 00 8b 54 24 28 0f b6 02 f6 80 40 f8 2f




Hope this helps,=20
and thanks for your work

Regards,
R.