connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.
Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.
Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:
- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.
Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.
Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.
Reviewed by: adrian
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* 286410
* 286413
* 286416
The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.
with the net80211 stack.
Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.
Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:
- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.
Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.
Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211
Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.
Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
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The 6205 (Taylor Peak) in the Lenovo X230 works fine in 5GHz 11a and 11n HT20,
but not 11n HT40. The NIC goes RX deaf the moment HT40 is configured.
It's so RX deaf that it doesn't even hear beacons and the firmware sends
"BEACON MISS" events. That's pretty deaf.
I tried configuring up the HT40 flags in monitor mode and it worked - so
I assumed that doing the transition from 20 -> 40MHz channel configuration
when going auth->assoc (ie, after the NIC has been partially configured)
is a problem.
So for now, let's just always set them if they're available.
Tested:
* Intel 5300, STA mode, 5GHz HT/40 AP; 2GHz HT/20 AP
* Intel 6205, STA mode, 5GHz HT/40, HT20, 11a AP; 2GHz HT/20 AP
This was pointed out to me by coworkers trying to use FreeBSD-HEAD
in the office on their Thinkpad T420p laptops.
TODO:
* I don't like how the HT40 flags are configured - the whole interop/
protection config should be re-checked. Notably, I think curhtprotmode
is 0 in a lot of cases, which means "no interoperability" and i think
that's busted.
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
The iwn(4) firmware forgets most of its channel state after an RXON
command. This means that any beacons its seen on passive 5GHz channels
are forgotten upon an association/authorisation request.
This unfortuantely means that 5GHz association almost always fails -
the assoc and/or auth frames are dropped with a status of "passive
channel, haven't seen a beacon yet." (0x90.)
So:
* add an xmit queue, global, to buffer frames
* modify the xmit path to use the mbuf tag from net80211
to specify raw frame details
* buffer xmit frames from both raw and non-raw paths
* if a beacon is seen in the RX path, schedule a taskqueue to
send said frames and un-buffer things.
* flush frames during state change back to INIT, or NIC
down/up/detach.
This isn't the final shape I'd like this to be in but it certainly
is better than 5GHz "not working at all".
Tested:
* Intel 5100, STA mode (before spilling coffee)
* Intel 5300, STA mode (after spilling coffee)
Story:
* This has been bugging me at work for months, which I just
worked around by throwing an ath(4) into my Lenovo T400 cardbus
slot.
* Our ops director discovered indeed FreeBSD runs well on the
Lenovo T420p, except for that pesky 5GHz thing. So now developers
also can have a T420p running FreeBSD to do work with.
Their #1 feedback to me - "boy it'd be nice if 5GHz wifi worked."
* .. then, I was at NANOG but stuck with 5GHz only wifi and no ath(4)
NIC to put in a laptop - and I snapped.
Thus, the reason this is actually work related.
MFC after: 2 weeks
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stability.
I'll re-enable it once the scan overhaul is done - the NIC itself
can do bgscan, but not how we're doing it.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
* simplify channel logic for determining RF gain setting in scan setup
* don't set TX timer on error
* free node references for unsent frames on device stop
* set maxfrags to IWN_MAX_SCATTER-1 (first segment is used by TX command)
* add missing IWN_UNLOCK() from interrupt path when the hardware
disappears.
* pass control frames to host
* nitems() instead of local macro
Tested:
* Intel 5100, STA mode
PR: kern/196264
Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
The rules turn out to be:
* for non-aggregation session TX queues - it's either sent or not sent.
* for aggregation session TX queues - if nframes=1, then the status reflects
the completed transmission.
* however, for nframes > 1, then this is just a status reflecting what
the initial transmission did. The compressed BA (immediate or delayed)
may not have yet been received, so the actual frame status is in the
compressed BA updates.
Whilst here, I fiddled with debugging and formatting a bit.
There's also RTS attempts (what the atheros chips call "short retries")
which weren't being logged and they aren't yet being used in the rate
control statistics updates. For now, at least log them.
TODO:
* This still isn't 100% correct! So I have to tinker with this some more.
(The failures aren't always failures..)
* Extend the rate control API in net80211 so it can take both short and
long retry counts.
Tested:
* Intel 5100, STA mode
The (eventual) intention is to create MIB counters for transmitted
frame completion to count how many packets with each status are
transmitted.
Note the difference between A-MPDU and non A-MPDU status.
Obtained from: Linux iwlwifi/dvm driver
but has some retries.
Without this, single frame transmission in AMPDU will always look like
it succeeded fine, and thus AMRR will think it's totally fine to just
keep upping the rate upwards.
Now, this is still not quite right! For multi-frame aggregates the
completion happens in two parts - the TX done and the BA received.
The driver is currently double accounting those a little - there's no
way to say to the rate control code "I completed X frames, Y worked fine,
there were Z retries." And it's a bit odd with iwn, as the firmware
retransmits frames for us so we don't get to see how many retransmits
happened; only that it took longer than normal. I may have to extend
the rate control API to properly track that.
So this may keep the rate lower than it should be, but that's better
than keeping it higher than it should be.
Tested:
* 5100, STA mode
in preparation for the 5300 3x3 NIC.
During this particular adventure, I did indeed discover that a whole
swath of things made little to no sense.
Those included, and are fixed here:
* A lot of the antenna configuration bits assume the NIC has two receive
chains. That's blatantly untrue for NICs that don't.
* There was some disconnect between the antenna configuration when
forming a PLCP rate DWORD (which includes the transmit antenna
configuration), separate to the link quality antenna configuration.
So now there's helper functions to return which antenna configurations
to use and those are used wherever an antenna config is required.
* The 5300 does up to three stream TX/RX (so MCS0->23), however
the link quality table has only 16 slots. This means all of the
rate entries are .. well, dual-stream rates. If this is the case,
the "last MIMO" parameter can't be 16 or it panics the firmware.
Set it to 15.
* .. and since yes it has 16 slots, it only would try retransmitting
from MCS8->MCS23, which can be quite .. terrible. Hard-code the last
two retry slots to be the lowest configured rate.
* I noticed some transmit configuration command stuff is different
based on firmware API version, so I lifted that code from Linux.
* Add / augment some more logging to make it easier to capture this
stuff.
Now, 3x3 is still terrible because the link quality configuration is
plainly not good enough. I'll have to think about that.
However, the original goal of this - 3x3 operation on the Intel
5300 NIC - actually worked.
There are also rate control bugs in the way this driver handles
notifying the net80211 rate control code when AMPDU is enabled.
It always steps the rate up to the maximum rate possible - and
this eventually ends in much sadness. I'll fix that later.
As a side note - 2GHz HT40 now works on all the NICs I have tested.
As a second side note - this exposed some bad 3x3 behaviour in
the ath(4) rate control code where it starts off at a 3-stream rate
and doesn't downgrade quickly enough. This makes the initial
dhcp exchange take a long time. I'll fix the ath(4) rate code
to start at a low fixed 1x1 MCS rate and step up if everything
works out.
Tested:
* Intel 2200
* Intel 2230
* Intel 5300
* Intel 5100
* Intel 6205
* Intel 100
TODO:
* Test the other NICs more thoroughly!
Thank you to Michael Kosarev <russiane39@gmail.com> for donating the
Intel 5300 NIC and pestering me about it since last year to try and
make it all work.
"fatal firmware error" happens. Previously it was neccessary to reset
it manually, using "/etc/rc.d/netif restart".
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MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
"fatal firmware error" happens. Previously it was neccessary to reset
it manually, using "/etc/rc.d/netif restart".
Approved by: adrian@
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Centrino 2230 firmware.
This fixes the general statistics block to be actually valid.
I've verified this by contrasting the output of iwnstats before and
after the change. The general block is now correct.
Tested:
* Intel 5100 (old format stats message)
* Intel 2230 (new format stats message)
It turns out that there's a variant format of the RX statisitcs notification
from the intel firmware. It's even more whacked - the non-BT variant has
bluetooth fields; apparently some later NICs return even _more_ bluetooth
related fields.
I'll commit the statistics structure changes here - it's a no-op for the
driver. I'll later teach the driver code to populate a statistics structure
from the received message after reformatting things correctly.
I don't _think_ it's going to fix anything related to sensitivity programming
as the CCK/OFDM (non-11n) fields are in the same place for both formats.
But the HT structure and the general statistics aren't in the same place.
I'll go find some NIC(s) that spit out the other format and when I find one,
I'll go and update the driver to handle things correctly.
Tested:
* Intel 5100 (which returns the legacy, non-BT format)
Obtained from: Linux iwlwifi
The origin of WEP comes from IEEE Std 802.11-1997 where it defines
whether the frame body of MAC frame has been encrypted using WEP
algorithm or not.
IEEE Std. 802.11-2007 changes WEP to Protected Frame, indicates
whether the frame is protected by a cryptographic encapsulation
algorithm.
Reviewed by: adrian, rpaulo
- Simplify MSI allocation and release. For a single one, we don't need to
fiddle with the MSI count and pci_release_msi(9) is smart enough to just
do nothing in case of INTx.
- Don't allocate MSI as RF_SHAREABLE.
- Use DEVMETHOD_END.
- Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers.
MFC after: 1 week
This chip doesn't require the temperature sensor offset, either v1 or
v2. Doing so causes the initial calibration test to fail.
Tested:
* Intel Centrino 6150
Make the scan state optional - we'll obviously need a vap, but we now
won't require the scan state. the only thing the scan state is needed
for is to check for the list of SSIDs to scan - which we can now
just plain ignore by passing in NULL as the scan state pointer.
Tested:
* Intel 5100 (STA)
This is in preparation for being able to use iwn_scan() to do an off
channel scan to reset the RF tuning.
It should be a no-op.
Tested:
* Intel 5100 (STA)
