From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38678 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753601AbZEPBeJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 21:34:09 -0400 Subject: Re: orinoco_cs and WPA-EAP? From: Dan Williams To: Howard Chu Cc: Dave , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4A0E0579.70507@highlandsun.com> References: <4A065AFD.8000604@highlandsun.com> <4A0D3A83.4040809@highlandsun.com> <4A0DB0A5.9010301@gmail.com> <4A0DC4A9.8050505@highlandsun.com> <4A0DD39D.6070001@gmail.com> <1242429170.10933.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4A0E0579.70507@highlandsun.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:35:03 -0400 Message-Id: <1242437703.10933.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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