NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

To enable debugging messages of a certain type use +type; to disable such messages use -type. Multiple messages can be enabled and disabled with a single command.

Messages are organized in the following groups:

debug

general debugging facilities; equivalent to setting the debug parameter with ifconfig(8).

dumppkts

dump packet contents on transmit and receive.

crypto

crypto-related work.

input

errors encountered during input handling.

xrate

extended rate set handling (for 802.11g).

elemid

information element processing in 802.11 management frames.

node

management of per-station state.

assoc

802.11 station association processing; particularly useful to see when stations join and leave a BSS.

auth

802.11 station authentication processing.

scan

scanning operation; especially useful for debugging problems with not locating an access point.

output

errors encountered during output handling.

state

wlan(4) state machine operation.

power

802.11 power save operation; in hostap mode this enables copious information about buffered frames for stations operating in power save mode.

hwmp

trace operation of Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol processing.

dot1xsm

802.1x state machine operation; not presently meaningful as 802.1x protocol support is implemented in user mode by the hostapd(8) program.

radius

radius backend operation as it relates to 802.1x operation; not presently meaningful as 802.1x protocol support is implemented in user mode by the hostapd(8) program.

raddump

dump packets exchanged with the radius backend for 802.1x operation; not presently meaningful as 802.1x protocol support is implemented in user mode by the hostapd(8) program.

mesh

trace operation of 802.11s mesh protocol processing.

wpa

trace operation of the WPA protocol; only partly meaningful as WPA protocol support is mostly implemented in user mode by the hostapd(8) and wpa_supplicant(8) programs.

acl

trace operation of the Access Control List (ACL) support; see wlan_acl(4) for more details.

wme

trace operation of WME/WMM protocol processing.

superg

trace operation of Atheros SuperG protocol processing.

doth

trace operation of IEEE 802.11h protocol processing.

inact

trace station inactivity processing; in particular, show when stations associated to an access point are dropped due to inactivity.

roam

trace station mode roaming between access points.

rate

trace transmit rate control operation.

EXAMPLES

it enables debug messages while scanning, authenticating to an access point, and associating to an access point.

SEE ALSO

NOTES

Some debugging messages are no longer meaningful because protocol processing has moved from the operating system to user mode programs such as hostapd(8) and wpa_supplicant(8).