From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 15:50:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20E7106564A for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:50:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geoff@apro.com.au) Received: from mail.ricksure.com.au (mail.ricksure.com.au [203.98.89.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2168FC17 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 171.78.233.220.static.exetel.com.au [220.233.78.171] by mail.ricksure.com.au with SMTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:34:52 +1000 From: Geoff Roberts Organization: Australian Projects To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:34:50 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-33-generic; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108290134.50561.geoff@apro.com.au> X-Declude-Sender: geoff@apro.com.au [220.233.78.171] X-Declude-Spoolname: 46146822.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.6.35 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [0] at 01:34:57 on 29 Aug 2011 X-Declude-Tests: Whitelisted X-Country-Chain: X-Declude-Code: 0 X-Declude-Recipcount: 1 Organization: Declude, Inc. X-Helo: ubuntutest-01.localnet X-RevDNS: Subject: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: geoff@apro.com.au List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:50:32 -0000 Hi, I have a Netgear WG311T PCI wireless card which uses an Atheros 5212 chipset. I've just upgraded my FreeBSD 8 Stable (I'm tracking RELENG_8) hardware from an old Athlon 64 chip to an i3 chip on a Gigabyte GA Z68XP-UD3 motherboard. Unfortunately the system freezes when loading the Atheros drivers on this new hardware. I have also tried FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 (64 bit) with the same result. I am happy to purchase a new card as I'm guessing this may be an intractable hardware issue. I've included debugging information below just in case there may be a solution or anyone else has come across this issue. I need a card capable of running Multiple Base Stations or Virtual Access Points (VAP) - another reason for looking for a newer card. Does anyone have any recommendations on a PCI or PCI Express wireless card that they have found works well in FreeBSD 8 or 9 with VAP capability? Debugging information ============== ath0: mem 0xfbce0000-0xfbceffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci4 ath0: [ITHREAD] ar5212Attach - sc 0xffffff0002447000 st 0x1 sh 0xffffff00fbce0000 ar5212SetPowerMode: AWAKE -> AWAKE (set chip ) ar5212SetPowerModeAwake: Bogus SCR 0xffffffff, PCICFG 0xffffffff At this point the system freezes. pciconf reveals the following: none1@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x4d001385 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = '802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter (AR2312)' class = network subclass = ethernet bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xfbce0000, size 65536, enabled cap 01[44] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 I'm running an amd64 system. The exact same system would boot without a problem on the older hardware. Kind regards, Geoff