From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 18:03:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15039106566C for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31D58FC12 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF3150876; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:50 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cE1-vAJDqUtI; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afiliascx2.afilias.com (ismtp.afilias.com [216.217.55.254]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DB8950865; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:46 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47E3F80A.3060400@langille.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:01:46 -0400 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080311) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20080321175756.2B31C45019@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20080321175756.2B31C45019@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s 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: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:55 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:10:39 -0400 >> From: Dan Langille >> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org >> >> Dan Langille wrote: >>> Folks: >>> >>> The ThinkPad X61s has arrived. It has 7.0-RELEASE installed on it. >>> >>> ifconfig ath0 <== never returns to the command line: >>> >>> from dmesg: >>> >>> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) >>> >>> ath0: mem 0xf7f00000-0xf7f0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3 >>> ath0: [ITHREAD] >>> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface >>> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx <== dunno why, but I masked those >>> ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2 >>> >>> >>> ath0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 >>> ether 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx >>> inet 0.0.0.16 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255 >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) >>> status: no carrier >>> ssid "" channel 165 (5825 Mhz 11a) >>> authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 32767 bgscan >>> bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11a 4.5 roam:rate11a 12 >>> burst >>> >>> >>> >>> # uname -a >>> FreeBSD laptop.unixathome.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun >>> Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 >>> root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >> Oh, and this: >> >> ath0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x058a1014 chip=0x1014168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' >> device = 'AR5212 Atheros AR5212 802.11abg wireless' >> class = network >> subclass = ethernet > > Same card works fine for me and several others. > > Are you running GENERIC or is it your own? GENERIC. > Clearly the ifconfig in the startup script works fine, so the issue is > why does the ifconfig you enter manually fail? Agreed. > What state is the process in while it's hung? (top(1) or CTRL-T will > provide this.) Can it be interrupted by a signal (CTRL-C), kill, or 'kill > -9'? sbwait. Yes, it can be control c'd, no problem here. ifconfig is not frozen. It just never comes back. > There was really not much information in your message with which to > guess what might be happening. If I knew what to say, I would. :) Thank you. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/