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when setting up the tx descriptors for the hardware we must account for any
padding between the header and the data we might have added previously. frame
len is the length of the frame in the air (including FCS but no padding) and
buffer len is the length of the buffer (including padding, but without FCS).
changing the way ah_setup_tx_desc is called: now excluding the FCS, since it's
easier to add that in the function where we need it.
before this fix we sent trailing zero bytes after the packet (because frame len
included the padding) which was not a big problem without WEP, but with WEP
this resultes in a wrong WEP checksum and the packet is discarded - which is
how i noticed at all ;)
an easy way to run into header padding problems, btw, is to connect to a QoS
(WME) enabled access point (eg. madwifi) - QoS data frames are 2 byte longer
and will require padding.
this patch applies on top of luis latest patch series from 04.02.2008.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c: Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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* use only one debug level for beacon debugging: unify ATH5K_DEBUG_BEACON and
ATH5K_DEBUG_BEACON_PROC.
* remove debug level ATH5K_DEBUG_FATAL. doesn't make sense as a debug level -
if it's fatal it should be logged as an error.
* fancier printing of debug levels. cat /debugfs/ath5k/phy0/debug.
* allow debug levels to be changed by echoing their name into
/debugfs/ath5k/phy0/debug. this will toggle the state, when it was off it will
be turned on and vice versa.
* use copy_from_user() when reading from the debug files. use unsigned int for
better optimization. reduce buffer sizes on stack.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c: Changes-licensed-under: GPL
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.h: Changes-licensed-under: GPL
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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always extend the rx timestamp with the local TSF, since this information is
also needed for proper IBSS merging. this is done in the tasklet for now, maybe
has to be moved to the interrupt handler like in madwifi.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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in "11.1.2.2 Beacon generation in an IBSS" the IEEE802.11 standard says, each
STA should... "b) Calculate a random delay uniformly distributed in the range
between zero and twice aCWmin × aSlotTime,".
configure cwmin and cwmax of the beacon queue in IBSS mode according to this.
unfortunately beacon backoff does not work reliably yet, so i suspect we have a
problem somewhere else, since the same settings (and similar beacon timer
configuration) work for madwifi.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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use SWBA (software beacon alert) interrupts to keep track of the next beacon
time und check if a HW merge (automatic TSF update) has happened on every
received beacon with the same BSSID.
this is necessary because the atheros hardware will silently update the local
TSF in IBSS mode, but not its beacon timers. if the TSF is ahead of the beacon
timers no beacons are sent until the timers wrap around (typically after about
1 minute).
this solution is not very nice, since we have to look into every beacon, but
there is apparently no other way to detect HW merges.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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update ath5k_beacon_update_timers() for better beacon timer calculation in a
variety of situations. most important is the possibility to call it with the
timestamp of a received beacon, when we detected that a HW merge has happened
and we need to reconfigure the beacon timers based on that.
we call this from the mac80211 callback reset_tsf now instead of beacon_update,
and there will be more use of it in the next patch.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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the beacon interval is passed by mac80211 in TU already, so we can directly use
it without conversion. also update the comments about TU (1 TU is defined by
802.11 as 1024usec).
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h: Changes-licensed-under: ISC
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Otherwise it may be impossible to connected to an open network after a
resume.
This is a modified version of an original patch by
Alex Eskin <alexeskin@yahoo.com>:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425950#c8
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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...instead of using AR5K_KEYCACHE_SIZE, which would seem to be a
typo/thinko...
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.
This has two advantages:
* removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
for working with network namespaces and performance
* allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
having to allocate own lists/hash tables
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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add ath5k wireless driver
Portions of this driver are covered by one or both of the ISC and
3-clause BSD licenses. Specific license information is cited at the top
of each file.
Acked-by and Signed-off-by information is collected from individual
patches as collected in the wireless-2.6 tree prior to upstream
submission.
Acked-by: Matthew W. S. Bell <mentor@madwifi.org>
Acked-by: Michael Taylor <mike.taylor@apprion.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Karen Sandler <karen@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Norwood <norwood@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana <fontana@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Meis <meis@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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