On Wednesday 14 May 2008 01:36:04 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 01:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Where does this "wrong buffer size" message come from, and what does it mean? > > > > > > > b43-phy1 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1, mac: > > > > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > > > wlan0: wrong buffer size<7>wlan0: wrong buffer size<7>wlan0: wrong > > > > buffer size<7>wlan0: wrong buffer size > > > > It comes from mac80211 when the AP is sending invalid A-MSDU frames. > > Wait. If this is with b43, why the hell is it sending A-MSDU frames in > the first place? Or maybe it's receiving totally corrupt data. A monitor > mode trace would help. Here's the full dmesg. Also notice "tx_ring_AC_VO: Used slots 128/128" after about 17000 successfull frames. Weird. > b43-phy1: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found > b43-phy1 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 9 > b43-phy1 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 > b43-phy1 debug: DebugFS (CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) not enabled in kernel config > phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' > Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: P, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] > firmware: requesting b43/ucode13.fw > firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals13.fw > b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) > b43-phy1 debug: Chip initialized > b43-phy1 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized > b43-phy1 ERROR: PHY transmission error > b43-phy1 debug: Wireless interface started > b43-phy1 debug: Adding Interface type 2 > wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f4:18:d4 > wlan0: RX authentication from 00:90:d0:f4:18:d4 (alg=0 transaction=2 > status=0) > wlan0: authenticated > wlan0: associate with AP 00:90:d0:f4:18:d4 > wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:90:d0:f4:18:d4 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) > wlan0: associated > wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:90:d0:f4:18:d4) > b43-phy1 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: > 00:90:d0:f4:18:d4 > b43-phy1 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1, mac: > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > wlan0: wrong buffer size<7>wlan0: wrong buffer size<7>wlan0: wrong > buffer size<7>wlan0: wrong buffer size > b43-phy1 debug: Disabling hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1, mac: > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > b43-phy1 debug: Removing Interface type 2 > b43-phy1 debug: Wireless interface stopped > b43-phy1 debug: DMA-64 rx_ring: Used slots 3/64, Failed frames 0/0 = > 0.0%, Average tries 0.00 > b43-phy1 debug: DMA-64 tx_ring_AC_BK: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames > 0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00 > b43-phy1 debug: DMA-64 tx_ring_AC_BE: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames > 0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00 > b43-phy1 debug: DMA-64 tx_ring_AC_VI: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames > 0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00 > b43-phy1 debug: DMA-64 tx_ring_AC_VO: Used slots 128/128, Failed frames > 106/17766 = 0.5%, Average tries 1 > b43-phy1 debug: DMA-64 tx_ring_mcast: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames > 0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00 > wlan0: deauthenticate(reason=3) -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
