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13 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Sam Leffler
6a76ae216e Add modes for 1/2 and 1/4-width channels so we have separate roaming
and xmit parameters.  This makes it possible to use tdma on fractional
channels.
o add IEEE80211_MODE_HALF and IEEE80211_MODE_QUARTER; note these are
  band-agnostic (may need revisiting)
o setup all default rates in ic_sup_rates instead of doing it only
  for active modes; we need these to calculate the default tx parameters
  which are not recalculated after a regulatory update (can't just
  recalculate after installing a new channel list because we might
  clobber user settings)
o remove special case code in ieee80211_get_suprates; this is now
  a candidate for an inline or removal
o add various entries for new modes (roaming+tx params, wme, rate
  mapping, scan set setup, country ie construction, tdma, basic rates)

Note these modes are intentionally not visible through if_media.
2009-02-19 05:21:54 +00:00
Sam Leffler
da92f1598c Change country ie construction to simplify forthcoming changes:
o use c99 initializer for skipflags
o calculate band flags instead of statically listing them in the table
2009-02-19 04:44:18 +00:00
Sam Leffler
24a90e6b81 correctly fixup iv_des_chan after installing a new channel table; if the
previous channel is now invalid we must set it to IEEE80211_CHAN_ANYC
2009-02-10 01:37:55 +00:00
Sam Leffler
a6f34da70b change null_getradiocaps to return the actual count of channels instead
of the true number; otherwise the caller may use the count to do things
with the data it should not (e.g. sort the channel table)
2009-01-28 18:37:46 +00:00
Sam Leffler
b83f2cf386 fix comment 2009-01-27 23:43:20 +00:00
Sam Leffler
5fe9f04492 change ic_getradiocaps driver callback to include the max # channels
so callers know the size of the array passed down
2009-01-27 23:19:36 +00:00
Sam Leffler
a5985e8b56 fix regulatory state check for all vaps' being down; it must be done
before calling the ic_setregdomain callback
2009-01-23 18:16:14 +00:00
Sam Leffler
31378b1c87 Fix definition of IEEE80211_CHAN_MAX; it was defined as 255 but
really was meant to be 256.  Adjust usage accordingly and replace
bogus usage of this value in checking IEEE channel #'s.

NB: this causes an ABI change; ifconfig must be recompiled
2008-12-15 01:26:33 +00:00
Sam Leffler
fad0f46d20 add debug msgs 2008-10-25 23:28:24 +00:00
Sam Leffler
b032f27c36 Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.
Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral).  Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.

Supported by:	Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by:	many
Obtained from:	Atheros (some bits)
2008-04-20 20:35:46 +00:00
Sam Leffler
5ef9cd6c92 correct netband skip check in constructing a country ie
Approved by:	re (blanket net80211)
2007-09-17 03:48:32 +00:00
Sepherosa Ziehau
f05ba5eeed Off-by-one bug in country ie construction, which will make HOSTAP send out
malformatted beacons.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (bmah), sam (mentor)
2007-08-26 11:34:51 +00:00
Sam Leffler
68e8e04e93 Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
  fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
  these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
  background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
  mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
  on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
  mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
  we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
  and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
  drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
  for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
  prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
  encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
  large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
  authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
  net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
  results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
  index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
  multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing

Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
       dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
       new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
       rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested

This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others.  Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros.  The 11n work was supported by Marvell.
2007-06-11 03:36:55 +00:00