From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 01:58:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 833DA16A4DD for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@swaggi.com) Received: from swaggi.com (c-24-91-61-171.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.91.61.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC7743D53 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:58:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@swaggi.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=swaggi.com) by swaggi.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1G71WE-000PTH-N6 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:59:06 -0500 Received: (from lists@localhost) by swaggi.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6U2x6Ef097914; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:59:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@swaggi.com) From: "Yuri Lukin" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: X-Originating-IP: 192.168.1.55 X-Mailer: Usermin 1.220 Message-Id: <1154228345.97910@swaggi.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:59:05 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1154228345" Subject: Re: Ongoing problems with the "ath" interface - is any relief in sight?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:58:18 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --bound1154228345 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ross Finlayson wrote .. > One more data point: These errors occur far more frequently when > there are several different clients associated to the base station > simultaneously. (E.g., today the errors occurred many times when > there were up to 9 clients associated at one time. > > Has anyone else had experience using the "ath" interface (on FreeBSD > 6.1-STABLE(hah!)) in hostap mode - i.e., as a base station? I find > it difficult to believe that I'm the only person experiencing these > problems. > > Again, if there's anything more I can to to help diagnose the > problem, pelase let me know. > > Ross. FWIW, I've had constant issues for the past few months or so with my atheros based XG-621s in several Soekris boxes running hostap. I was constantly seeing "ath0: device timeout" errors which would seize the card and the only was to revive it was to reboot the box. I upgraded to 5354M+ Aries 2 4G cards but the problem remained. Upgrading to 6.1-STABLE a few days ago seemed to have taken care of my problems. It's been 4 days now and so far so good. Yuri --bound1154228345--