remove now-redunant cardbus attachment.

Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.

Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no l

Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.

Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.

Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)

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Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible

Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing

Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested

This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.

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o break newbus api: add a new argument of type driver_filter_t to
bus_setup_intr()

o add an int return code to all fast handlers

o retire INTR_FAST/IH_FAST

For more info: http://docs.freebsd.org

o break newbus api: add a new argument of type driver_filter_t to
bus_setup_intr()

o add an int return code to all fast handlers

o retire INTR_FAST/IH_FAST

For more info: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=465712+0+current/freebsd-current

Reviewed by: many
Approved by: re@

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Since DELAY() was moved, most <machine/clock.h> #includes have been
unnecessary.

Fix include paths to make this compile.

Add support for the second (RT2561/RT2561S) and third (RT2661 MIMO XR)
generations of 802.11abg chipsets from Ralink Technology.
Get rid of the pccard front-end while I'm here since all adapters are

Add support for the second (RT2561/RT2561S) and third (RT2661 MIMO XR)
generations of 802.11abg chipsets from Ralink Technology.
Get rid of the pccard front-end while I'm here since all adapters are
cardbus ones.

Obtained from: OpenBSD

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Propagate rename of IFF_OACTIVE and IFF_RUNNING to IFF_DRV_OACTIVE and
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchron

Propagate rename of IFF_OACTIVE and IFF_RUNNING to IFF_DRV_OACTIVE and
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.

Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.

Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days

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Initial import of ipw, iwi, ral and ural drivers:

ipw - Intel PRO/Wireless 2100
iwi - Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG
ral - Ralink Technology RT2500
ural - Ralink Technology RT2500USB

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Initial import of ipw, iwi, ral and ural drivers:

ipw - Intel PRO/Wireless 2100
iwi - Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG
ral - Ralink Technology RT2500
ural - Ralink Technology RT2500USB

Approved by: silby (mentor)

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