From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 14 11:28: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D1037B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A09843E31 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6EIRp1f002629; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:27:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:26:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020714.122650.57973375.imp@bsdimp.com> To: gavin@itworks.com.au Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgear MA401 wireless cards From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <02f701c22b0f$5dccc580$6401a8c0@bugs> References: <02f701c22b0f$5dccc580$6401a8c0@bugs> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <02f701c22b0f$5dccc580$6401a8c0@bugs> "Gavin Cameron" writes: : Can someone tell me whether a constant stream of these debug messages is : correct if the wi driver is put into debug mode. Yes. It is. : > Jul 11 11:01:24 chip /kernel: wihap_mgmt_input: len=6 MGMT: auth: : > Jul 11 11:01:24 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: station 00:30:ab:1a:06:d1 : algo=0x0 s : > eq=0x1 : > Jul 11 11:01:24 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: returns status=0x0 : > Jul 11 11:01:25 chip /kernel: wihap_mgmt_input: len=6 MGMT: auth: : > Jul 11 11:01:25 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: station 00:30:ab:1a:06:d1 : algo=0x0 s : > eq=0x1 : > Jul 11 11:01:25 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: returns status=0x0 : > Jul 11 11:01:27 chip /kernel: wihap_mgmt_input: len=6 MGMT: auth: : > Jul 11 11:01:27 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: station 00:30:ab:1a:06:d1 : algo=0x0 s : > eq=0x1 : > Jul 11 11:01:27 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: returns status=0x0 : > Jul 11 11:01:32 chip /kernel: wihap_mgmt_input: len=6 MGMT: auth: : > Jul 11 11:01:32 chip /kernel: wihap_auth_req: station 00:30:ab:1a:06:d1 : algo=0x0 s : : These messages will go on forever. Although them happening every few seconds does seem a little excessive. I'd expect the auth messages to be happening on the order of once a minute. : I have the following options in my kernel config file : : options WLCACHE # enables the signal-strength cache : options WLDEBUG # enables verbose debugging output : : Is it the WlDEBUG that is causing the messages? Should I turn this option : off to get more meaningful debug messages? These are for a different driver and will have no effect. : Also, the problem I raised with the wi interface debug mode and channel : changes : is still happening after a cvsup, kernel rebuild and reboot. Likely something subtle here. I don't change channels when I'm debugging. Debug mode is designed only to track down problems with the mgmt messages, not as a general purpose tool that's bullet proof :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message