Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 03:16:04 +0000 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> To: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl Message-ID: <AD3FC2C8-C71D-473D-9C10-17031A5564EF@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B8B2EEA.6010500@pingle.org> References: <5fbf03c21002270427s74d0f067gb76cfe10c2794121@mail.gmail.com> <20100227124308.GA28213@mx.techwires.net> <5fbf03c21002270501l2e388ec9tbdad684d38609861@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002272029130.49218@fledge.watson.org> <C816D0F2-67CD-4361-8FD3-376F7619EF46@gmail.com> <4B89E174.1060802@pingle.org> <1B1F52CC-FF36-4432-9345-73BB673EE7E8@gmail.com> <4B8AAA0B.4010402@pingle.org> <3BA70425-5413-4E04-AA91-85B699B1D8EF@gmail.com> <4B8B25E0.4060604@pingle.org> <5E979157-9E68-4C08-81BD-14255B038D7F@gmail.com> <4B8B2EEA.6010500@pingle.org>
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On 1 Mar 2010, at 03:05, Jim Pingle wrote: > On 2/28/2010 9:41 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: >> On 1 Mar 2010, at 02:26, Jim Pingle wrote: >>> Ah, I wasn't aware of wlandebug(8). However, it doesn't seem to = operate >>> on this mwl(4) card. It sets the value of the sysctl = net.wlan.0.debug >>> and that doesn't show up on my system. Another system with a ral(4) = card >>> does have that sysctl. Judging by the information in the = wlandebug(8) >>> man page it appears as though this may be a side effect of mwl doing >>> much of the work in firmware. >>=20 >> wlandebug takes an -i argument. I seem to recall you created your = wlan interface named "mwl_wlan0", so you need to type wlandebug -i = mwl_wlan0. >=20 > I saw that, but that is hardcoded to expect wlan<x> (wlan0, wlan1, = etc) > for an interface name. Having seen that, I recompiled wlandebug = without > the hardcoded interface name check and it didn't work either, but it = did > toss an error for the sysctl it was trying to tweak. The whole system was designed for the interfaces to start with "wlan" = and be named "wlan<something>". > That made me look deeper at the code and see it was really just = setting > the debug sysctl based on flags that wlandebug was aware of. Handy, = but > the same thing could be done by hand with sysctl and some bitwise math > in a pinch, assuming the interface has the right oids. (Which mine > doesn't, for some reason...) The purpose of wlandebug is to not do any math by hand. -- Rui Paulo
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