Hi, guys.
I hit this one today (OpenBSD 4.9 release, IBM T42 laptop) and couldn't find any
answers in Google.
[Sorry this is a bit long-winded, wanted to include hopefully relevant
material.]
The closest answer from Google seemed to be this [1] - but not *exactly* what
I'm seeing. Suspend & resume are fine; no reboots required to make things work
again.
I looked at Antoine's article about OpenBSD in a corporate environment [2] and
thought I'd like to get a list of wireless networks as per his screenshot [3].
I assumed that this was scraped from the output of "ifconfig iwi0 scan", and my
troubles began ...
I'm connecting with iwi0, all good.
Used this:
# ifconfig iwi0 nwid toohey wpakey yaddayadda
# dhclient iwi0
And we're OK:
$ ifconfig iwi0
iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:16:6f:41:65:72
priority: 4
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM48)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid toohey chan 11 bssid 00:1c:10:fb:45:b1 47dB wpakey <not
displayed> wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher
tkip 100dBm
inet6 fe80::216:6fff:fe41:6572%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.1.108 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
$ ping www.google.co.nz
PING www.l.google.com (203.97.30.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 203.97.30.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=61 time=44.015 ms
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 50.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 44.015/44.015/44.015/0.000 ms
I wonder what other wireless networks are out there, so I run:
# ifconfig iwi0 scan
iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:16:6f:41:65:72
priority: 4
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM48)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid toohey chan 11 bssid 00:1c:10:fb:45:b1 48dB wpakey
<<cut>>
wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip 100dBm
nwid www.eol.co.nz chan 9 bssid 00:18:25:11:8f:00 27dB 54M
privacy,short_preamble
nwid toohey chan 11 bssid 00:1c:10:fb:45:b1 50dB 54M
privacy,short_slottime,apsd
nwid 0x000000000000000000 chan 6 bssid e8:39:df:fe:55:1d 27dB
54M
privacy,short_slottime
inet 192.168.1.108 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
I get back what looks like valid information, but the wireless indicator light
on my laptop is out (or frozen solid on.) Can't ping Google. Error message on
console about fatal firmware error.
# tail /var/log/messages
May 29 19:10:56 puffy /bsd: mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
May 29 19:10:56 puffy /bsd: vscsi0 at root
May 29 19:10:56 puffy /bsd: scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets
May 29 19:10:56 puffy /bsd: softraid0 at root
May 29 19:10:56 puffy /bsd: root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
May 29 19:10:56 puffy savecore: no core dump
May 29 19:15:48 puffy dhclient[25551]: routehandler: interface address deleted
May 29 19:16:11 puffy /bsd: iwi0: fatal firmware error
May 29 20:00:02 puffy syslogd: restart
May 29 20:46:46 puffy /bsd: iwi0: fatal firmware error
# ping www.google.co.nz
ping: unknown host: www.google.co.nz
# ifconfig iwi0
iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:16:6f:41:65:72
priority: 4
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid toohey wpakey <<cut>> wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk
wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip 100dBm
inet6 fe80::216:6fff:fe41:6572%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.1.108 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
# ifconfig iwi0 up
# ping www.google.co.nz
PING www.l.google.com (203.97.30.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 203.97.30.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=61 time=44.531 ms
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 44.531/44.531/44.531/0.000 ms
I fix with:
# ifconfig iwi0 up
All fine ... until the next time I do the scan. I've tried in a couple of
locations. I've checked I've got the latest firmware.
Obviously easy enough to work around, but ... why? Just a firmware bug & end of
story? Any better solution or something I'm doing wrong / missing?
Thanks.
[1] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128905270613474&w=2
[2] http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633
[3] http://undeadly.org/misc/201104/gnome1.png
dmesg:
OpenBSD 4.9 (GENERIC) #671: Wed Mar 2 07:09:00 MST 2011
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.70
GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2
real mem = 1609527296 (1534MB)
avail mem = 1573064704 (1500MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/13/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd750, SMBIOS
rev. 2.33 @ 0xe0010 (61 entries)
bios0: vendor IBM version "1RETDNWW (3.19 )" date 10/13/2005
bios0: IBM 23737WM
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: battery life expectancy 100%
apm0: AC on, battery charge high
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd6e0/0x920
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdea0/272 (15 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #6 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 0xd0000/0x1000 0xd1000/0x1000 0xdc000/0x4000!
0xe0000/0x10000
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1699 MHz: speeds: 1700, 1400, 1200, 1000, 800, 600 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
io address conflict 0x5800/0x8
io address conflict 0x5808/0x4
io address conflict 0x5810/0x8
io address conflict 0x580c/0x4
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82855PM Host" rev 0x03
intelagp0 at pchb0
agp0 at intelagp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82855PM AGP" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility M7" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
radeondrm0 at vga1: irq 11
drm0 at radeondrm0
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x81
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
mem address conflict 0xb0000000/0x1000
mem address conflict 0xb1000000/0x1000
cbb0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "TI PCI4520 CardBus" rev 0x01: irq 11
cbb1 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "TI PCI4520 CardBus" rev 0x01: irq 11
em0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82540EP)" rev 0x03: irq 11,
address 00:15:58:0a:67:97
iwi0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" rev 0x05: irq 11,
address 00:16:6f:41:65:72
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0xb0
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 6 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0xb0
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801DBM LPC" rev 0x01: 24-bit timer
at 3579545Hz
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801DBM IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MHV2040AH>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38154MB, 78140160 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, RW/DVD GCC-4242N, 0J05> ATAPI 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801DB SMBus" rev 0x01: irq 11
iic0 at ichiic0
spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2700CL2.5
spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 1GB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2700CL2.5
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x01: irq 11, ICH4
AC97
ac97: codec id 0x41445374 (Analog Devices AD1981B)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
"Intel 82801DB Modem" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured
usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc/4: polled
aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask effd netmask effd ttymask ffff
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
vscsi0 at root
scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
iwi0: fatal firmware error
