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
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
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