This is very preliminary and mostly enough for me (with other patches)
to work on VHT support.
It adds:
* VHT20, VHT40 and VHT80 regulatory/band awareness
* VHT20, VHT40 and VHT80 channel configuration / population
* Parses vht channel specifications (eg ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev athp0 wlanmode monitor channel 36:vht/80)
* Configuration of VHT, VHT40, VHT80, VHT80+80, VHT160 channel
width (IEEE80211_FVHT_VHT* flags in net80211)
TODO:
* No VHT80+80 or VHT160 channels yet - I don't yet have hardware, and I'm
not yet sure how to support/populate VHT80+80 channels.
* No, I won't update the manpage until this is "more done", lest someone
tries using vht and gets upset with me.
* No, I won't commit the regulatory database I'm testing with, so you'll
just end up with no VHT channels ever populated. Which is good, as there
isn't an 11ac driver in-tree yet to try it with.
Change default regulatory domain from DEBUG (no limitations;
exposes all device channels) to FCC; as a result, newly created wireless
interface with default settings will have less chances to violate
country-specific regulations.
This change will not affect drivers with pre-initialized regdomain
structure (currentry ath(4) and mwl(4)); in that case, the default
channel list must correspond to the default regdomain / country setting.
You can switch to another regdomain / country via corresponding
ifconfig(8) options; the driver must implement ic_getradiocaps()
method to restore full channel list.
Full country / regdomain list may be obtained via
'ifconfig <iface> list countries' command.
Example: change country to Germany:
ifconfig wlan0 down # all wlans on the device must be down
ifconfig wlan0 country DE
ifconfig wlan0 up
# wpa_supplicant(8), dhclient(8) etc
At the creation time:
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 country DE
To make changes permanent add the following line to the rc.conf(5):
create_args_wlan0="country DE"
Tested with
- Intel 3945BG (wpi(4)).
- WUSB54GC (rum(4)).
Reviewed by: adrian
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6228
that it is NUL terminated. Additional NUL padding is not required
for short names.
Use sizeof(destination) in a few places instead of IFNAMSIZ.
Cast afp->af_ridreq and afp->af_addreq to make the intent of
the code more obvious.
Reported by: Coverity
CID: 1009628, 1009630, 1009631, 1009632, 1009633, 1009635, 1009638
CID: 1009639, 1009640, 1009641, 1009642, 1009643, 1009644, 1009645
CID: 1009646, 1009647, 1010049, 1010050, 1010051, 1010052, 1010053
CID: 1010054, 1011293, 1011294, 1011295, 1011296, 1011297, 1011298
CID: 1011299, 1305821, 1351720, 1351721
MFC after: 1 week
Do not use 20 MHz channel list while checking 40 MHz channels;
it may be different. Just use the corresponding list instead.
Tested by: Masachika ISHIZUKA <ish@amail.plala.or.jp>
PR: 209328
This adds the ability to view and configure the STBC parameter for
both transmit and receive.
Whilst here, fix a typo for AMSDU.
TODO:
* manpage update
ic_nchans, from struct:ieee80211req_chaninfo, is an unsigned int.
Use an unsigned index to prevent overflowing the index.
Adopt unsigned integers in other cases where it is useful
to be aware of the unsigned quantities and there is no
risk of the values being negative.
MFC after: 1 week
This displays the IE names in ifconfig but it doesn't yet decode things.
Submitted by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3782
* remove regdomain.[ch] - it's now part of lib80211.
* convert ifieee80211.c to use the ioctl routines in lib80211 and
implement the "error? exit" wrapper behaviour the callers expect.
Right now net80211 is configured as type IBSS but then treats it
as mediatype ADHOC. This doesn't change that; it just correctly handles
being given a mediatype of IBSS.
This allows a hostap to specify to a set of stations that they
should not transmit for a certain period of time after each
beacon interval has expired. This is used when searching for
radar pulses or general interference.
Submitted by: Himali Patel <himali.patel@sibridgetech.com>
Sponsored by: Sibridge Technologies
on frequency bands with DFS. All Atheros chipsets >= AR9001 support
radar event detection on HT40 extension channels.
This should be a chipset specific item rather than enforced in the
regulatory domain database.
In addition, it's irrelevant for STA mode, as the radar detection is
done by the access point, not the STA.
Approved by: re (kib)
list channel' is run. The following new options are introduced:
* D: channel requires DFS
* R: channel has a radar event
* I: channel has detected inteference
* C: the CAC period has completed on a channel that requires it (ie,
DFS + PASSIVE.)
It's relevant for developing, debugging and using the DFS and
interference options.
Approved by: re (bz)
When requesting a scan and one is already in progess, e.g. while in scan
state, we happily wait for a scan done notification. Though, this
notification might never be sent, e.g. if we are trying to find a network
to associate to and there is none. Instead of always waiting for a
notification just do so if a new scan has been started. For both cases the
scan cache is used to report available networks even if the content might
not be fresh.
MFC after: 1 month
is deferred for the time it takes to flush the TX queue. This work being
done the scan then is continued, but only if it is marked to do so. As
the 'ifconfig scan' request is meant to be used after the interface is
brought up, request a background scan by default. This behaviour is
already documented in manual page.
This fixes on possible case where 'ifconfig scan' hangs infinitely.
MFC after: 1 month
* don't clobber proxy entries
* HWMP seq number processing, including discard of old frames
* flush routing table entries based on nexthop
* print route flags in ifconfig
* more debugging messages and comments
Proxy changes submitted by sam.
Approved by: re (kib)
* bridge support (sam)
* handling of errors (sam)
* deletion of inactive routing entries
* more debug msgs (sam)
* fixed some inconsistencies with the spec.
* decap is now specific to mesh (sam)
* print mesh seq. no. on ifconfig list mesh
* small perf. improvements
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kib)
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s
bits but isi_state did not follow; expand it to 32 bits and pad to
maintain alignment. Note this is an incompatible change that
requires rebuilding of user applications.
Submitted by: rpaulo, cbzimmer, avatar
that selects a callback from an interface prefix name. This allows us to
report a meaningful error when the user types 'ifconfig wlan0 create',
for example, and also kills some redundant code.
Reviewed by: sam (earlier version)
