Wireless problems on 8.0-RELEASE

[Alex]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:27 +0000
Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/18/10, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:23:56 +0000
> > Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 1/18/10, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > The module is loaded at boot time in loader.conf, but I think
> >> > this is the message you were looking for:
> >> >
> >> > ntoskrnl dummy called...
> >>
> >> I was looking for:
> >>
> >> no match for IoWMIQueryAllData
> >> no match for IoWMIOpenBlock
> >>
> >> Does message appears only when uploading
> >> or just always, after boot is completed
> >> but before interface is turned up (via ifconfig)
> >>
> >
> > I've never seen those messages in the dmesg output. Strangely, the
> > only method by which I can successfully upload large files is scp.
> 
> Here is my test results (another driver/card combination):
> With opera and gmail, upload "stuck" at ~32kb but rtorrent and sftp
> uploads just fine. Upload of 1.3M file in opera stuck at few kb but
> it was complete after
> few seconds.
> 
> >> You said that 7.2 doesnt have this problem,
> >> are you using same SYS and INF files with 8.0 ?
> >>
> >
> > No, because Lenovo released updates for the driver. Both the older
> > version of the driver (the one I used on 7.2) and the newest
> > version of the driver produce the same problems on 8.0. If you
> > want, I can upload the older version of the driver too.
> 
> Try to remove line with OID_GEN_CURRENT_LOOKAHEAD
> in /sys/dev/if_ndis.c, rebuild and reinstall if_ndis module and see
> if that helps.
> 

/sys/dev/if_ndis.c does not exist, however /sys/dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c
does exist. I have commented out the line and executed:

make buildkernel
make installkernel

but it did not seem to fix the problem (I don't use modules -- I only
compile in what I need).

> Why are you have tso disabled, does it works with tso enabled?
> Are there any other custom sysctl options?
> 

If I recall correctly, someone on IRC recommended I try disabling that.
Changing this setting had no effect -- the problem existed either way.
It is enabled now. No other sysctl options are in effect.

> What is signal strength of the AP? And current link speed? (this one
> is available only on CURRENT and from my git repo code)

SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
skynet          00:28:10:00:28:10    6   54M -71:-96  100 EP  

media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g

-- 
Alex