From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 06:03:18 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 74B8316A419 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DE813C469 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:03:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-33-194.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.33.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAG62ZLX017706 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:32:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:31:48 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <473D17AD.9090808@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <473D17AD.9090808@computer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2128217.pFPbnnSvEz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200711161631.49956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Eric Schuele 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 06:03:18 -0000 --nextPart2128217.pFPbnnSvEz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Eric Schuele wrote: > 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. > 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? > 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. > > Note that "nothing" has changed aside from upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0.=20 > 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. "Me too" (although I am running -current). I find that WPA-EAP seems to take ages to connect and quite often it will need me to do wpa_cli reassociate and wait before it will work. WPA-PSK doesn't seem to disconnect very often at all for me but I have seen it happen. My wpa_supplicant.conf.. ctrl_interface=3D/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=3Dwheel network=3D{ ssid=3D"dons" key_mgmt=3DWPA-EAP phase2=3D"auth=3DMSCHAPV2" identity=3D"username" password=3D"password" } network=3D{ ssid=3D"Genesis" key_mgmt=3DWPA-PSK psk=3D"mykey" } The WPA-EAP AP is a WRT54G running OpenWRT, the WPA-PSK one is an Alloy WDS24108AP (which I believe has some Atheros chipset in it) [inchoate 16:30] ~ >dmesg | grep ath ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: mem 0xfafe0000-0xfafeffff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:90:96:c1:90:54 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6 [inchoate 16:31] ~ >uname -a =46reeBSD inchoate.localdomain 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3: Tue Nov = 6 02:13:04 CST 2007 darius@inchoate.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/I= NCHOATE i386 =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2128217.pFPbnnSvEz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHPTJN5ZPcIHs/zowRAqq4AJ4gNhqhE1Zd+w/ks0lnZqxMyDvlAgCePvu/ CX0ExA47RV0auuIWZ7/+UUg= =zSke -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2128217.pFPbnnSvEz--