iwi driver: Probes but no association (FreeBSD5.4).

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Josef,

> > What is the output of iwicontrol iwi0 -r ?
> 
>     genius# ifconfig iwi0 up
>     genius#
>     /tmp/wireless/iwi-freebsd-1.3.4/src/usr.sbin/iwicontrol/iwicontrol iwi0
>     -r
>     Radio is ON
>     genius# ifconfig iwi0
>     iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	    inet6 fe80::20e:35ff:fe38:1e14%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> 	    ether 00:0e:35:38:1e:14
> 	    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> 	    status: no carrier
> 	    ssid tao 1:tao
> 	    channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
> 	    rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS txpower 100
> 	    wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

I wasn't able to bring the interface up either before last commit two
days ago in -CURRENT.  It would also be worth setting both
net.wlan.debug and net.wlan.0.debug sysctls to -1, but I don't think
these are available in RELENG_5.

> > As far as I can tell, this driver is not longer updated, the developpement
> > is done in BSD source trees (look at the file modification date).
> 
> Any idea how easy it is to port over to 5.x?

I think it's mostly impossible as the iwi(4) should be using the new
Sam Leffler's net80211 framework which is not going to be MFC'd to
RELENG_5.  I believe you should definitely try -CURRENT.

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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