Re: orinoco_cs and WPA-EAP?

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:14 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 21:42 +0100, Dave wrote:
> >> That message is printed in response to a firmware interrupt. It
> >> indicates "an unsolicited Frame Structure cannot be generated... because
> >> there is not enough Frame Structure buffer space available".
> >>
> >> I suspect that the beacons/probe responses/scan results are either too
> >> large/too frequent for the card to handle, or the firmware can't
> >> decipher them.
> >>
> >> Before enabling wpa_supplicant, can you try scan for your AP (as root):
> >>
> >> iwlist ethX scan essid YYYYY
> 
> That works fine. In fact, just "iwlist scan" returns the same result - only 
> the info for my AP is returned. (There are at least 6 APs visible from an 
> another laptop sitting nearby.)
> 
> >> I'm interested in what it returns, and whether dmesg reports 'Ext scan
> >> results too large' or something similar.
> 
> No, it just continues with the stream of "frame lost" messages:
> 
> eth2: Information frame lost. (10 times, followed by 1
> __ratelimit: 2 callbacks suppressed  (then 10 more frame lost messages, and so on)
> 
> The number in "callbacks suppressed" varies pretty widely, from 2 to 32.
> 
> > Yeah a lot of APs will stuff a ton of info into the IEs these days,
> > including WPS, WPA, 11d, blah blah.  It's not out of the question that
> > the firmware writers didn't anticipate or handle large numbers of IEs in
> > the beacons.  That said, what firmware version is he using?  Maybe
> 
> Using 9.48, I so far haven't found 9.52 for download anywhere.

9.52 AFAIK is only available from Apple Airport drivers if you cut it
out of the .kext on a PPC Mac.

Dan