Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:45:48 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Atheros wireless problems. Message-ID: <1222317948.1740.10.camel@jill.exit.com>
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So I obtained a D-Link DWL-AG660 cardbus card, which has a 5213 (I
believe) Atheros chipset in it; it's an a/b/g card. This is to use
while the chipset embedded in my laptop isn't supported. It came today,
I installed it tonight and, well, problems.
I can get it to associate and, sometimes, even to get an IP address, but
as soon as I start trying to actually pass traffic on it, all hell
breaks loose. It starts timing out and the ath_hal starts complaining.
Essential information:
ath0@pci0:57:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a631186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:13:46:11:6b:41
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:13:46:11:6b:41
inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe11:6b41%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
status: associated
ssid Unwired channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1f:33:82:2f:6d
regdomain FCC indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 18 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
wme burst ff roaming MANUAL
>From the dmesg:
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf2110000-0xf211ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:13:46:11:6b:41
Then from /var/log/messages:
Sep 24 21:14:11 kernel: ath0: device timeout
Sep 24 21:14:11 kernel: ath0: ath_reset: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3230480741
I've also seen:
Sep 24 21:03:55 auton kernel: ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3310983360
Sep 24 21:02:35 auton kernel: ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 0
But it has only been those messages. I haven't yet tried turning on
bootverbose but I can if you would like.
Any ideas? Any suggestions? As I sit here (using the wired em0 instead
of ath0) the lights on the card are happily blinking but it's not doing
anything at all.
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