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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:33:29 +0200
From:      Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>
To:        Buganini <buganini@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver 
Message-ID:  <E1O6T7Z-0000WL-9f@clue.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20100424235827.GK65380@weongyo> 
References:  <20100424235827.GK65380@weongyo> <20100303082833.GB22865@weongyo> <20100303111014.6564ea1e.ray@dlink.ua> <20100312231333.GZ1295@weongyo> <20100313231205.5e68a89a.ray@ddteam.net> <20100314005558.GB88159@weongyo> <20100315004357.fca53c7f.ray@ddteam.net> <20100316225113.GF88159@weongyo> <y2ze5b1e8d41004132259t1c7d499x2c12253942f41969@mail.gmail.com> <E1O26UJ-0000ab-SD@clue.co.za> <s2xe5b1e8d41004240842gb2387764v49366f43c0f64758@mail.gmail.com>

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Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > > The corollery is that it doesn't work first time on reboot. ??I need
> > > to either '/etc/rc.d/netif restart' and if that panics the machine,
> > > destroy wlan0 and then restart netif.
> > >
> > > Then wlan0/bwn0 associates correctly with this device.
> 
> If you're a CURRENT user could you please show me the result of `netstat
> -ni' after updating latest CURRENT and keeping scanning channels?

[mini] /usr/home/ianf $ netstat -niI bwn0
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs Idrop    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
bwn0   2290 <Link#1>      00:26:5e:57:23:33      913     0     0      537     0     0
[mini] /usr/home/ianf # ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:26:5e:57:23:33
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g)
        country US authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 30 bmiss 7
        scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
        roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL

[mini] /usr/home/ianf $ ifconfig wlan0 list scan
SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
quasar          00:30:4f:58:bf:94    1   54M -108:-95  100 EP   WPA WME
                00:1f:33:01:76:f4   11   54M -137:-95  100 EPS  WPA WME ATH

It's not scanning.  Now:

[mini] /usr/home/ianf # ifconfig wlan0 destroy
[mini] /usr/home/ianf # /etc/rc.d/netif restart
[mini] /usr/home/ianf # ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:26:5e:57:23:33
        inet 10.0.2.232 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.2.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
        ssid quasar channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:30:4f:58:bf:94
        country US authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit
        txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
        roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL

Ian

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Ian Freislich



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