Re: WEP and 802.11 drivers

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:23 +0100, Andrea Campi wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:07:12PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:
> > Since adding wlan_wep to the kernel config, I do not have traps and
> > double faults, but neither I have wireless connectivity -- card gets
> > configured and claims to associate, occasionally I even get as far as
> > obtaining address via DHCP, but that is all I can get. Intermittently I
> > get 'host is down' from ping. At that point, ifconfig would show
> > 'status' as 'no carrier'.
> 
> Try playing with /usr/src/tools/tools/ath/80211debug and set different
> flags until you get some more info. If you see it whining about invalid
> transitions from INIT -> RUN, you are seeing the same issue I am.
> Sam didn't reply to an email about this, so might be either too busy
> or not interested on fixing wi (although at least a reply to that effect
> would be nice). I'll probably start debugging this during the holidays,
> or I'll have to go back to 5.STABLE, which I would hate.
> 
> Bye,
> 	Andrea
> 
A little bit of update -- I have got my hands on the Linksys WPC55AG
(Atheros based card) and it does not seem any happier then previous two
-- shows stations in the vicinity and starts channel hopping. There is a
lot more debugging information coming from this one as opposed to the
'wi' but end result seems to be the same. This same card is working in
5.3-stable from mid-November with the same setup (different laptop
though). I have not had a chance to try it in non-WEP environment, maybe
will get around to it tonight.

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)