Wireless problems on 8.0-RELEASE

[Alex]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:17:49 +0000
Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/19/10, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> That one is just after association, code from CURRENT have fixed this.
> 
> Does lowering mtu of wlan0 interface to 1400 helps?
> 
> Speaking about "ntoskrnl dummy called..."
> 
> Try to change return value of IoWMIRegistrationControl, in
> /sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c , from STATUS_SUCCESS to
> STATUS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED and recompile/reinstall kernel.
> 

I have changed the return value, but the ntoskrnl messages are still
being displayed at a rate of about one per second.

I have changed the MTU and am now able to log in to gmail, however when
I do the following message appears:

"Some Gmail features have failed to load due to an Internet
connectivity problem."

Moreover, the user interface is unresponsive.

-- 
Alex