iwn(4) works (mostly) in stable/10; fails to associate in head

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Thu Mar 26 11:16:16 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:19:40PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 25 March 2015 at 19:21, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 06:17:48PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm unfortunately too busy to really help you dig into it.
> >>
> >> I'd start by using tcpdump on wlan0 to see what's going on - see if
> >> it's sending/receiving DHCP responses.
> >
> > Well, in head, it won't even associate, so I suspect that DHCP is a moot
> > point.
> 
> Ok, sysctl dev.iwn.0.debug=0x1, wlandebug +scan, and then start wpa_supplicant.
> 
> It should be reasonably obvious what's going on - if it can't see APs
> or it can't transmit anything successfully, then at least I know where
> to begin looking when I have spare time.
> 
> I have a 5100 in my T400:
> 
> iwn0 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x12118086 chip=0x42378086
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection'
>     class      = network
> ...

Excellent!  I should have a chance to try that while I'm building
today's head, then -- probably about 30 minutes from now or so,
depending on how long it takes to build & boot stable/10 & update the
installed ports.

Peace,
david
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