[9fans] wavelan config problems

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

I have been trying to get a wavelan/orinoco card working using the
driver in the March 27 distribution, without success.
(In the mean time I applied to portclock.c fix).
On the same laptop the card works without problems for win98 and linux.

I did not have a working plan9 network (card) on this laptop before, so I'm
configuring the network stuff at the same time. Could errors (or omissions)
made there explain my problems? I try to 'hardcode' the ip-gateway, ip-address
and network mask in the ip/ipconfig line in /rc/bin/termrc, but that doesn't
make much of a difference.

To sketch what is happening: say, our managed network name is OUR-NAME
(different, actually, but indeed all caps and including a hyphen)
Encryption keys shgo

In the plan9.ini I have:
ether0=type=wavelan

without anything else.
After booting, one green led on the card is on.
However, it seems that for each packet sent I get a transmit error.
At least, that is what I see in the stats window, and also in the
/net/ether0/0/ifstats and /net/ether0/0/stats status files.
However, stats reports one more packets sent than ifstats,
but the same number of errors. i.e.: stats: in=2 out=2 output-errors=1;
ifstats txpackets=0 rxpackets=0 txerrors=1 rxerrors=0 txrequests=1.
Does that mean that one packet got out without error?

/net/ether0/0/ifstats reports a.o. the following:
Current name: OUR-NAME\01
Net name: First WaveLAN II SSID

where the \01 represents hex 01. Wonder where the \01 comes from.

In attempt at debugging, I changed etherwavelan.c to check the return
value of the w_cmd call in w_outltv, in the same way as elsewhere
in the file, but this doesn't seem to give me much, becaue I get an
error message for each config command that I sent to the driver,
like: echo 'crypt on' > /net/ether0/0/ctl .


Earlier I tried to use a plan9.ini with
ether0=type=wavelan essid=OUR-NAME

which gives me in /net/ether0/0/ifstats
Current name: non-specified SSID!!
Net name: OUR-NAME

and the green led on the card is off.

Does this make sense to anyone?
I really have the feeling that I'm overlooking something simple...
Some things I could check/do to get more grip on the problem?


Regards,
Axel.