From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 08:22:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CA016A41F for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:22:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@bontoft.net) Received: from mail16.bluewin.ch (mail16.bluewin.ch [195.186.19.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E377B43D46 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@bontoft.net) Received: from bifrost.protocols.co.za (83.76.234.18) by mail16.bluewin.ch (Bluewin 7.2.063) id 42D28050003E6D23 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:22:49 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (mjolnir.protocols.co.za [10.0.0.21]) by bifrost.protocols.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D06521 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:25:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42F47354.6000109@bontoft.net> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:22:44 +0200 From: Andy Bontoft User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms010808000906060702090900" Subject: ath problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:22:52 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010808000906060702090900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm unable to get a wireless access point to work properly and for the life of me I can't work out why. I've spent the past few evenings trawling the mailing list archives without much success. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. It's an Atheros 5212 (Wistron cm9 miniPCI) in a soekris 4801 box. A test client (WinXP SP2) can associate and on occasion obtains an address from the DHCP server on the ether side of the AP. Most of the time it is unable to obtain an address however, and even when it does after a few seconds it changes to the default not connected address of the 169.254/16 network. Initially I was trying to configure hostap for wpa+802.1x (EAP_TLS), the 802.1x worked fine and the XP laptop received its address, again after a few seconds the address would revert to the 169.254/16 network. To try and identify the issue I switched to a simple wep mode (without hostap), but I have the same issue. The athstats tool reports a lot of failures. I haven't attached pages and pages of debug output as I'm not sure what would be required and don't want to flood the list. I have just attached a few of the basic things, but if more information is required I can obviously supply it. Thanks for your time andy btw - the same laptop works perfectly with an identical config (except the SSID is different) on second 'off the shelf' AP. ap# ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8847 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20b:6bff:fe35:cb82%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255 ether 00:0b:6b:35:cb:82 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated ssid Z channel 9 bssid 00:0b:6b:35:cb:82 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 53 protmode CTS dtimperiod 1 bintval 100 ap# sysctl net.link.ether.bridge net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: "ath0,sis0" net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw: 0 net.link.ether.bridge_ipf: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.config: "ath0,sis0" net.link.ether.bridge.enable: 1 net.link.ether.bridge.predict: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.dropped: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.packets: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.ipfw_collisions: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.ipfw_drop: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.copy: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.ipfw: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.ipf: 0 net.link.ether.bridge.debug: 2 net.link.ether.bridge.version: 031224 ap# ./athstats 1666 tx management frames 5 tx frames discarded prior to association 996 tx failed 'cuz too many retries 11502 long on-chip tx retries 221 tx frames with no ack marked 204 tx frames with short preamble 57002 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC 136258 rx failed 'cuz of PHY err 122418 OFDM timing 13840 CCK timing 28961 beacons transmitted 165 periodic calibrations 4 rfgain value change 4489 rate control checks 5 rate control dropped xmit rate rssi of last ack: 19 avg recv rssi: 33 59 switched default/rx antenna Antenna profile: [1] tx 472 rx 3037 [2] tx 414 rx 29 -- YW5keUBib250b2Z0Lm5ldAo= --------------ms010808000906060702090900 Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; 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