More on the Orinoco + XI-825 + StrongARM platform...

David Gibson hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Feb 21 11:42:05 EST 2002


On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:46:01PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
> David Gibson wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:05:50AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >
> >>Here is what the received packet header looks like with
> >>the latest 'testing' driver.  It looks like the 08 06
> >>should be where the 00 44 is, if I understand things correctly.
> >>
> >>Packet received, hdr:
> >>00 60 b3 69 56 67 00 02 2d 0b 27 a0 00 44 aa aa
> >>03 00 00 00 08 06
> >>
> >
> >How are you capturing this packet - this the extra stuff here is an
> >802.2 header.  Over the air, 802.11 always has an encapsulated 802.2
> >header, but the driver is supposed to convert to Ethernet-II frames.
> 
> 
> I put printk statements in the driver, see below.  Can you tell if
> the header is correct at this stage?  If so, I can add more debugging
> farther up the stack to see where it gets lost/corrupted, etc...

Ok, your printk()s are before the decapsulation logic, so you're
seeing the packet's 802.2 header, and the fake 802.3 header that the
card generates.  Given that, it looks correct.

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