Wireless Networking Bug(s) in 9.1-RC2 (?)

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

Greerings,

I am currently running 9.1-RC2 on my laptop, and I'm wondering what the
proper procedure is for reporting bugs in not-yet-released releases.
Could somebody please tell me?  Should I just file a regular PR?  (I've
never done this before for anything that's not an official -RELEASE,
and I don't want to be busting anybody's chops over something that isn't
considered ready-for-prine-time anyway.)

So anyway, I'll give the issue to you in a nutshell... This laptop has
both wired ethernet and wireless (11{b,g,n}) capabilities.  I have a
Linksys E1000 which I had this thing successfully talking to/with
(using 11n) under 9.0-RELEASE.  (The Linksys is set to speak `N-Only'.)

Now however, it does appear to me that in 9.1-RC2 there may perhaps be
a problem which is causing the iwn0 interface to want to speak to the
Linksys using 11b, of all things.  (I would have though that if it was
giving up on `N' it would have fallen back to `G' next.)

I include below relevant portions of my /etc/rc.conf file and the output
I am now getting from ifconfig -a.

Guidance would be appreciated.  Should I be filing a PR?  Is my rc.conf
goofed?


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  Actually, I've never tried running _both_ the wired & wireless stuff
on this laptop in parallel before now.  Is that part of the problem?  And
anyway, how exactly does the system establish a default route to 192.168.1.1
when there are two (or more) ways to get there from here?


rc.conf:
=============================================================================
hostname="slim.tristatelogic.com"
ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
#
wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA inet 192.168.1.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid ronair2-1"
=============================================================================

ifconfig -a:
=============================================================================
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:24:21:65:ad:a0
        inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::224:21ff:fe65:ada0%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
iwn0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b
        status: associated
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
wlan0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18
        inet 192.168.1.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0xb 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid ronair2-1 channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
        country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy OFF txpower 15 bmiss 10
        scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
        roam:rate 1 wme roaming MANUAL bintval 0
=============================================================================