Testing the Wireless driver changes

[Ricardo Carrano]

Yani,

On the msh0_rename interface:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5746

-- RC

On Jan 15, 2008 10:29 PM, Giannis Galanis <giannisgalanis at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> There are a couple of issues i would like to address, mostly related to
> the new wireless driver.
>
> First, the netstat command:
> About 50% of the time it becomes very slow(practically freezes) and spews
> a "getnameinfo error".
> The result from strace is:
> ---------------
> .....
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.18.0.1
> ")}, 28) = 0
> fcntl64(4, F_GETFL)                     = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
> fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0
> gettimeofday({1200442106, 340565}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1
> send(4,
> "\270\227\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\1e\0017\1c\1e\1c\0010\1e\1f\1f\1f"..., 90,
> MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 90
> poll( <unfinished ...>
> ----------------
> It seems(according to Bernie)..that netstat makes queries to the DNS
> server but it is temporarily down. Still if you execute the command a couple
> of time it works again, but is a very regular phenomenon. This should be a
> network issue, and not a driver issue, but can you confirm that?
>
> Also, the msh0 interface is named after msh0_rename. Is there a reason for
> that? Will this change back to normal in the future? How will it be in
> Update1?. This inconsistency causes some issues in the olpc-netstatus
> command utility.
>
> Can you also please describe the changes from the user's perspective that
> are changed/improved in the new driver. So we know were to start testing
> from.
> For example,
> what is the situation with mesh on or off
> is the mesh-start file still in use
> are improvements related to 4470
>
> thanx,
>
> yani
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 6:40 PM, Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org > wrote:
>
> > David,
> > Yani is back from his time off and finished with his exams (at least for
> > now). Before the new year break, he had been working on testing, documenting
> > and debugging issues mostly associated with avahi and telepathy, but also
> > with wireless. He and Ricardo have been our wireless test experts.
> >
> > Now that he is back, it would be great if you and Michail can provide
> > some thoughts on the highest priority testing that we should do here or at
> > Michail's house (for a little more controlled RF setting); so we can try to
> > find bugs as quickly as possible.
> >
> > Also - Ricardo, you might be able to give us some indication of your
> > availability for testing and how many laptops you have in Brazil, etc.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kim
> >
>
>
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