From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 05:35:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7245A16A41A for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:35:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=efd14593658846e0f7ad51fed4b18f21cbf16676=520=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal4.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:6000:1::66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D75E13C461 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=efd14593658846e0f7ad51fed4b18f21cbf16676=520=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id VQZ21317; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:35:17 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 326DB4500F; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:35:16 -0800 (PST) To: Eric Schuele In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:08:13 CST." <473D17AD.9090808@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1195191316_45753P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:35:16 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20071116053516.326DB4500F@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Eric Schuele X-To_Domain: computer.org X-To: Eric Schuele X-To_Email: e.schuele@computer.org X-To_Alias: e.schuele Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 and atheros .... 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: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:35:20 -0000 --==_Exmh_1195191316_45753P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:08:13 -0600 > From: Eric Schuele > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Hello, > > I'm having some strangeness with respect to my atheros based card on > releng_7. This may not sound like much... but together they concern me. > I'm wondering if anyone has seen similar things. > > 1) I've seen two panics while trying to bring the interface up over > the last few weeks. I have not seen this. > 2) I get disconnected every night from my wireless router at home. > 99% of the time it happens after I've gone to bed. Once or twice... > while I was sitting in front of it. It just disassociates? Try 'ifconfig ath0 -bgscan'. Something causes my card to lose association periodically when the background scan is in progress. > 3) When I am at the office, my card will *never* obtain an ip address > from our DHCP server upon first booting. I must *always* down the > interface, kill dhclient, bring the interface up and start dhclient. Are you running wpa_supplicant? Are you using WPA, WEP or running open? I see the card get "stuck" when scanning. It scans channels, but only for WPA secured APs. When needing to associate with a WEP or open AP, it never leaves WPA mode, so never associates. I am also running BETA2 on a 5212 card in a T43 ThinkPad. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > Note that "nothing" has changed aside from upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0. By > this I mean I've used all/most/many of the same config files to > configure things. Maybe thats the problem, I don't know. > > What can I provide that might offer insight? Below is a little. > > uname > FreeBSD fangorn.nxdomain.org 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sat Nov 3 > 01:59:25 CDT 2007 > > From dmesg: > ############################ > ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413> ) > ath0: mem 0xfafe0000-0xfafeffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pc> i2 > ath0: [ITHREAD] > ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface > ath0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6 > ############################ > > From rc.conf > ########################### > network_interfaces="lo0 bfe0 ath0" > ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" > ifconfig_bfe0="DHCP" > ############################ > > My wpa_supplicant.conf > ############################ > # Home > network={ > ssid="My_SSID" > scan_ssid=1 > priority=5 > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > psk="My_PSK" > } > > # Office > network={ > ssid="Work_SSID" > key_mgmt=NONE > priority=3 > } > ########################## > > Thanks for your help. > > -- > Regards, --==_Exmh_1195191316_45753P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHPSwUkn3rs5h7N1ERAiD1AJ4ykFXBDZxoCaZkVQRcrzpv7RgRKQCdEkHa EEY0cE9aOQM+n7FBPCd4WkM= =NxgM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1195191316_45753P--