NDISulator and "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG" - no connection cache and signal strength info

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

Hi 

Exercising on fresh 6-CURRENT

ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection> mem
0xd0201000-0xd0201fff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci2
ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:03:82:74
ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

Basically it does work well but, wicontrol returns strange numbers:

% wicontrol -i ndis0
NIC serial number:                      [  ]
Station name:                           [ vbook.fbsd.ru ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ NC ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ NC ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [ NC ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
Channel list:                           [ ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff fff
f 3fff ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 65535 ]
Current channel:                        [ 11 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 0 0 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card:             [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:0e:35:03:82:74 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 11 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2312 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]

strange channel list, not any signal quality data, etc
also
% wicontrol -i ndis0 -C
% 
show nothing, but there is connection via this interface:

% arp -an | fgrep ndis0
? (172.22.2.199) at 00:06:25:55:c7:af on ndis0 [ethernet]
% ping -q -c1 172.22.2.199
PING 172.22.2.199 (172.22.2.199): 56 data bytes

--- 172.22.2.199 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.116/16.116/16.116/0.000 ms
%

but wicontrol -l shows valid station (AP) info:

% wicontrol -i ndis0 -l
3 stations:
ap[0]:
        netname (SSID):                 [ NC ]
        BSSID:                          [ 00:06:25:55:c7:af ]
        Channel:                        [ 11 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 100 / 100 / 0 ]
                                [dBm]:  [ 100 / -49 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:     [ 0 ]
        Capinfo:                        [ WEP ]
        DataRate [Mbps]:                [ 11 ]
....

with signal quality.

Anybody can provide some clues ?


-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru