associated to AP (WEP mode) && no IP addr via DHCP

[Sam Leffler]

Дмитрий Колосов wrote:
> On Суббота 07 марта 2009 16:38:05 Matthias Apitz wrote:
>   
>> El día Friday, March 06, 2009 a las 04:10:25PM -0800, Sam Leffler escribió:
>>
>>     
>>> What does athstats show for crypto errors?  If the WEP-encrypted packet 
>>> is dropped by the h/w then you will see the counter bump.
>>>
>>> Based on the above you are not running HEAD; if you can try that I can 
>>> help more.
>>>       
>> Sam, when I've built the HEAD kernel last year in August for my EeePC,
>> my hints file says about:
>>
>> ...
>> Sam's patch for HAL:
>>
>> # cd /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev
>> # mv ath ath.RELENG_7
>> # tar xzf ath_hal-20080528.tgz
>> # mv ath_hal-20080528 ath
>>
>> Is this patch still required for RELENG_7, or already in the sourcen whe
>> I now do 'cvs update -rRELENG_7 src/sys'? It seems so from the age of
>> the files below /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath after cvs update...
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> 	matthias
>>
>>     
>
> Just use mad-wifi hal to replace a system one. It worked fine to me.
> After replacing /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/ with content of madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz/hal (and building a new kernel) my ath0
> {
> ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xf4000000-0xf400ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
>
> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x04281468 chip=0x001c168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00                                                                            
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'                                    
>     device     = 'AR5006 family 802.11abg Wireless NIC'                           
>     class      = network                                                          
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> }
>  working very fast - burst, dturbo, Atheros Fast Frames modes, and other atheros modes supported wery well! But hardware led not blinking (under u-know-what OS it is blinking when tx or rx is active).
>   

The source code hal has many bug fixes relative to the binary madwifi 
hal. Getting it into RELENG_7 is prerequisite for any changes moving 
from HEAD to RELENG_7.

LED blinking is likely just a matter of enabling softled and programming 
the gpio pin and polarity.

Sam