Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless cards.
This driver requires microcode which is available in FreeBSD ports:
net/urtwn-firmware-kmod.
Hiren ported the urtwn(4) man page from OpenBSD and Glen just commited a port
for the firmware.
TODO:
- 802.11n support
- Stability fixes - the driver can sustain lots of traffic but has trouble
coping with simultaneous iperf sessions.
- fix debugging
MFC after: 2 months
Tested by: kevlo, hiren, gjb
freed memory cannot be used during detach.
- Remove all panic() calls from the urtw driver because
panic() is not appropriate here.
- Remove redundant checks for device detached in
device detach callbacks.
- Use DEVMETHOD_END to mark end of device methods.
MFC after: 2 weeks
through the USB API and/or busdma.
The following assumptions have been made:
umass - buffers passed from CAM/SCSI layer are OK
network - mbufs are OK.
Some other nits while at it.
MFC after: 1 week
Suggested by: imp
- Make it easier to port the USB code to other platforms by only using
one set of memory functions for clearing and copying memory. None of
the memory copies are overlapping. This means using bcopy() is not
required.
- Fix a compile warning when USB_HAVE_BUSDMA=0
- Add missing semicolon in avr32dci.
- Update some comments.
MFC after: 1 week
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
on the largest multi-write size.
From the submitter:
==
I looked further into the magic 88-byte threshold after which the bug
occurs. It turns out that figure included the 24-byte tx_desc, and up
to 64 bytes of beacon frame (header+data).
rum_write_multi doesn't seem happy with writing >64 bytes at a time to
the MAC register. If I break it up into separate calls (e.g. bytes
0-63, then bytes 64-65, written at the appropriate offset) I see the
proper beacon frames being transmitted now.
==
Submitted by: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>
MFC after: 3 days
latter.
It appears that the addition to uath(4) came in through PR kern/135009,
which had tested another device, the SMCWUSBTG2, successfully with uath(4)
and included the SMCWUSBG as it "has the same chipset". I can find no
other evidence that these two do actually share the same chipset. Moreover,
Linux treats the SMCWUSBG as a zyd(4) device also.
This reverts r223537.
Discussed with: hselasky, kevlo
MFC after: 1 week
sorted according to the mode which they support:
host, device or dual mode
- Add generic tool to extract these data:
tools/bus_autoconf
Discussed with: imp
Suggested by: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
PR: misc/157903
MFC after: 14 days
While updating Tx stats, already freed node could be referred and cause
page fault. To avoid such panic, spool Tx stats in driver's softc. Then,
on every ratectl interval, grab node though ieee80211_iterate_nodes() and
update ratectl stats.
* Simplify some code in run_iter_func().
* Fix typo
* Use memset instead of bzero (hselasky @)
PR: kern/153938
Submitted by: PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca>
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)
Drivers which rely on net80211 to create the beacon need to call
ieee80211_beacon_update() on iv_update_beacon() calls. This is required
that certain bits, e.g. TIM, get updated. A call to ieee80211_beacon_alloc()
is not enough because it does not care about flags which can only change
during runtime. By design a beacon is supposed to be allocated only once
while moving into RUN state.
To handle all possible calls to iv_update_beacon() the run_updateslot()
function has been revived and run_updateprot() has been added.
run_updateslot() handles slot time changes and run_updateprot() changes
to protection, both can change while nodes associate/leave.
Submitted by: Alexander Zagrebin <alex at zagrebin.ru>,
PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy atyahoo.ca>
MFC after: 3 weeks
This fixes hostap mode for at least ral(4) and run(4), because there is
no sufficient call into drivers which could be used initialize the node
related ratectl variables.
MFC after: 3 days
the IEEE80211_C_RATECTL flag set, default to NONE for all drivers. Only if
a driver calls ieee80211_ratectl_init() check if the NONE algo is still
selected and try to use AMRR in that case. Drivers are still free to use
any other algo by calling ieee80211_ratectl_set() prior to the
ieee80211_ratectl_init() call.
After this change it is now safe to assume that a ratectl algo is always
available and selected, which renders the IEEE80211_C_RATECTL flag pretty
much useless. Therefore revert r211314 and 211546.
Reviewed by: rpaulo
MFC after: 2 weeks
opposition to the change, since really we need to implement missing
functionality in drivers or the 802.3 layer.
For now, restore a reminder message for a missing rum_update_mcast, but
print it only once.
callback function will be executed, and that the key won't be deleted during
the init process.
- txmic and rxmic are written into the chip the same place regardless of
opmode.
- Make the hardware generate 802.11 sequence numbers.
Submitted by: Akinori Furukoshi
Obtained from: git://gitorious.org/run/run.git
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
This framework allows drivers to abstract the rate control algorithm and
just feed the framework with the usable parameters. The rate control
framework will now deal with passing the parameters to the selected
algorithm. Right now we have AMRR (the default) and RSSADAPT but there's
no way to select one with ifconfig, yet.
The objective is to have more rate control algorithms in the net80211
stack so all drivers[0] can use it. Ideally, we'll have the well-known
sample rate control algorithm in the net80211 at some point so all
drivers can use it (not just ath).
[0] all drivers that do rate control in software, that is.
Reviewed by: bschmidt, thompsa, weyongo
MFC after: 1 months
message has been printed is enough to get someones attention. Also remove the
line number for DPRINTF/DPRINTFN, it already prints the funtion name and a
unique message.
was major changes to initialize RF chipset and set H/W registers and
removed a lot of magic numbers on code. Details are as follows:
- uses the endpoint 0x89 to get TX status information which used to
get TX complete or retry numbers or get a beacon interrupt. It's
only valuable for RTL8187B.
- removes urtw_write[8|16|32]_i functions that it's useless now.
- uses ic->ic_updateslot to set SLOT, SIFS, DIES, EIFS, CW_VAL
registers that doesn't set these whenever the channel is changed.
- code for initializing RF chipset for RTL8187B changed a lot that
there was many problems on TX transfers so it doesn't work properly
even if just for a ping/pong. Now it becomes more stable than
before that TX throughputs using netperf(1) were about 15 ~ 17Mbps/s
though sometimes it encounters packet losses.
- removes a lot of magic numbers that in the previous all of
representing RX and TX descriptors were consisted of magic numbers
and structures. It'd be more readable rather than before.
- calculates TX duration more accurately for urtw(4) devices.
- style(9)
The newbus lock is responsible for protecting newbus internIal structures,
device states and devclass flags. It is necessary to hold it when all
such datas are accessed. For the other operations, softc locking should
ensure enough protection to avoid races.
Newbus lock is automatically held when virtual operations on the device
and bus are invoked when loading the driver or when the suspend/resume
take place. For other 'spourious' operations trying to access/modify
the newbus topology, newbus lock needs to be automatically acquired and
dropped.
For the moment Giant is also acquired in some key point (modules subsystem)
in order to avoid problems before the 8.0 release as module handlers could
make assumptions about it. This Giant locking should go just after
the release happens.
Please keep in mind that the public interface can be expanded in order
to provide more support, if there are really necessities at some point
and also some bugs could arise as long as the patch needs a bit of
further testing.
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to reflect the newbus lock introduction.
Reviewed by: ed, hps, jhb, imp, mav, scottl
No answer by: ariff, thompsa, yongari
Tested by: pho,
G. Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>,
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail dot com>
Sponsored by: Yahoo! Incorporated
Approved by: re (ksmith)
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
ICIDU NI-707503 which is donated by Nick Hibma (great thanks!). Though
it has a MAXIM RF (0x8) there's some success reports with using GCT RF
(0x9) codes and it worked well for ICIDU NI-707503 too. So codes for
MAXIM and GCT RFs are integrated.
Before this commit, if I rememeber correctly, MAXIM RF is never tested
that it seems it's a first report working with FreeBSD.
o replace DLT_IEEE802_11 support in net80211 with DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
and remove explicit bpf support from wireless drivers; drivers now
use ieee80211_radiotap_attach to setup shared data structures that
hold the radiotap header for each packet tx/rx
o remove rx timestamp from the rx path; it was used only by the tdma support
for debugging and was mostly useless due to it being 32-bits and mostly
unavailable
o track DLT_IEEE80211_RADIO bpf attachments and maintain per-vap and
per-com state when there are active taps
o track the number of monitor mode vaps
o use bpf tap and monitor mode vap state to decide when to collect radiotap
state and dispatch frames; drivers no longer explicitly directly check
bpf state or use bpf calls to tap frames
o handle radiotap state updates on channel change in net80211; drivers
should not do this (unless they bypass net80211 which is almost always
a mistake)
o update various drivers to be more consistent/correct in handling radiotap
o update ral to include TSF in radiotap'd frames
o add promisc mode callback to wi
Reviewed by: cbzimmer, rpaulo, thompsa
bug referencing a destroyed lock within TX callbacks during device
detach.
Submitted by: hps (original version)
Tested by: Lucius Windschuh <lwindschuh at googlemail.com>
sleepable context for net80211 driver callbacks. This removes the need for USB
and firmware based drivers to roll their own code to defer the chip programming
for state changes, scan requests, channel changes and mcast/promisc updates.
When a driver callback completes the hardware state is now guaranteed to have
been updated and is in sync with net80211 layer.
This nukes around 1300 lines of code from the wireless device drivers making
them more readable and less race prone.
The net80211 layer has been updated as follows
- all state/channel changes are serialised on the taskqueue.
- ieee80211_new_state() always queues and can now be called from any context
- scanning runs from a single taskq function and executes to completion. driver
callbacks are synchronous so the channel, phy mode and rx filters are
guaranteed to be set in hardware before probe request frames are
transmitted.
Help and contributions from Sam Leffler.
Reviewed by: sam
- make usb2_power_mask_t 16-bit
- remove "usb2_config_sub" structure from "usb2_config". To compensate for this
"usb2_config" has a new field called "usb_mode" which select for which mode
the current xfer entry is active. Options are: a) Device mode only b) Host
mode only (default-by-zero) c) Both modes. This change was scripted using
the following sed script: "s/\.mh\././g".
- the standard packet size table in "usb_transfer.c" is now a function, hence
the code for the function uses less memory than the table itself.
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky
o call ieee80211_encap in ieee80211_start so frames passed down to drivers
are already encapsulated
o remove ieee80211_encap calls in drivers
o fixup wi so it recreates the 802.3 head it requires from the 802.11
header contents
o move fast-frame aggregation from ath to net80211 (conditional on
IEEE80211_SUPPORT_SUPERG):
- aggregation is now done in ieee80211_start; it is enabled when the
packets/sec exceeds ieee80211_ffppsmin (net.wlan.ffppsmin) and frames
are held on a staging queue according to ieee80211_ffagemax
(net.wlan.ffagemax) to wait for a frame to combine with
- drivers must call back to age/flush the staging queue (ath does this
on tx done, at swba, and on rx according to the state of the tx queues
and/or the contents of the staging queue)
- remove fast-frame-related data structures from ath
- add ieee80211_ff_node_init and ieee80211_ff_node_cleanup to handle
per-node fast-frames state (we reuse 11n tx ampdu state)
o change ieee80211_encap calling convention to include an explicit vap
so frames coming through a WDS vap are recognized w/o setting M_WDS
With these changes any device able to tx/rx 3Kbyte+ frames can use fast-frames.
Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo, avatar, imp, sephe
o remove ic_myaddr from ieee80211com
o change ieee80211_ifattach to take the mac address of the physical device
and use that to setup the lladdr.
o replace all references to ic_myaddr in drivers by IF_LLADDR
o related cleanups (e.g. kill dead code)
PR: kern/133178
Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo