Changelog towards if_iwi.c 1.26 (some changes have been committed separately
in the mean time):
- add led support
- add firmware loading on demand
- auto-restart firmware when it crashes
- serialize operations sent to the firmware to reduce firmware crashes
- add power save operation support
- remove incorrect specification of tx power control capability
- add radio on/off switch support
- improve net80211 state machine operation
- recognize and handle beacon miss
- handle authentication and association failures better
- add shared key authentication
- fix ibss mode (many changes)
- fix wme (many changes)
- correct radiotap support (many changes)
- correct bus dma setup of s/g
- correct various locking issues
- fix monitor mode
- fix scanning (many changes)
- recover from wedged scan requests
- respect active channel list
- eliminate cases where interface was marked down on error
- don't treat parity errors as fatal
- reclaim mgt frames immediately from tx queue
- correct interrupt handling, ack early (from NetBSD)
- fix short/long preamble handling
Committed with RELENG_6 compat #if's, should compile in RELENG_6. Requires
net/iwi-firmware-kmod to function.
Much work done by: sam
Tested by: many (freebsd-net), ume, luigi
MFC after: 4 weeks
o call firmware_put() early to release the firmware module
o on firmware panics or watchdog timeouts, schedule a task to reinitialize
the interface (we may sleep in iwi_init())
o discard oversized rx frames
directory by default) without requiring the user to load them by hand using
e.g iwicontrol. Get rid of the old ioctl crud.
Updated iwi-firmware port coming soon.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
in an IBSS. Store ids directly into ieee80211_node's instead of managing
our own private association table. Idea and code by Sam Leffler.
Submitted by: sam
MFC after: 5 days
o Allow association with APs that do not broadcast SSID (with hints from
Nick Hudson and Hajimu Umemoto).
o IFQ_DRV_PREPEND mbuf when h/w ring is full so it can be sent later.
o Increment if_oerrors when appropriate.
o Did some cleanup while I'm here.
MFC after: 1 day
o management of multiple tx rings (up to 4)
o setting of WME IE in association requests
Some features are still missing though, like the possibility to override
the default cwmin/cwmax/asfn values of each tx queues.
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
and on resume (reported to fix issues with ACPI)
o Add monitor mode support
o Add WPA (802.11i) support (not tested extensively though!)
o Add a device specific sysctl to control the tx antenna (default to
antenna diversity)
o Fix sensitivity setting
o Fix setting of the capinfo field when associating
o Temporarly disable 802.11a channels scanning that was causing firmware
panics with 2915ABG adapters until I find a better fix. This breaks
802.11a support.
o Temporarly switch back to software WEP until I implement hardware
encryption for AES and TKIP too.
Approved by: silby (mentor)
