From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 18:18:53 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 DBAC0106564A for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:53 +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 873D68FC1A for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54EEB50876 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:49 +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 tICPj9GVwTup for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afiliascx2.afilias.com (ismtp.afilias.com [216.217.55.254]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D1E825082C for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:44 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47E3FB8D.10800@langille.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:16:45 -0400 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080311) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20080321175756.2B31C45019@ptavv.es.net> <47E3F80A.3060400@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <47E3F80A.3060400@langille.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:18:54 -0000 resending, this time to list instead of just Kevin. :) Dan Langille wrote: > 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. :) FYI $ while true ; do ifconfig ath0 | grep ssid; sleep 2; done ssid "" channel 8 (2447 Mhz 11g) ssid "" channel 100 (5500 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 140 (5700 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 36 (5180 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) ssid "" channel 165 (5825 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 136 (5680 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 64 (5320 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) ssid "" channel 161 (5805 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 132 (5660 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 64 (5320 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) ssid "" channel 161 (5805 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 132 (5660 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 60 (5300 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 2 (2417 Mhz 11g) ssid "" channel 157 (5785 Mhz 11a) ssid "" channel 128 (5640 Mhz 11a) ^C -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/