From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 20 18:22:20 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD426E9A; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x234.google.com (mail-ie0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A11362DA; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iedm5 with SMTP id m5so35217011ied.3; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:22:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=yJhsMqlZfmWahHM+kJ7yZ6tPsfOEe9/TysGkh4gjEOY=; b=yjLtUirQVGy5vymRNvQ/G/NuAAjDEEU+KTJkJrBMaaIiBMCh5VCJolM2YZb/u222Ad 0DrrHTNrQZxcDM9Sme5Mm74cd/yqMUVnjWwacUyXOT4ct1zEzcVd5Kh6/JGmUGJ5e6BZ ezVm1VBXiqSAwf1P84KUe3uu5X3S4gJ7DiWvlqk0mkd0ye6W1E0UgUUVHz8KVZ+QjhX7 0MbBTgHqHjnB/1f8BcGhbpfrHrtHdMiyvU8qYCst57bWxTOAxtFLYyzn3KFCRxwShjKT 5ZdyiRW/WJNCK/1ztKPFscnCdTEhtbgzXZNFOLR4QRLoFCeOea0rB4bUbnGKaRkaPSIj AmVQ== X-Received: by 10.107.134.219 with SMTP id q88mr103852879ioi.27.1426875740084; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:22:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.55.167 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:21:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <550C505F.2030809@icloud.com> From: Miguel Clara Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:21:59 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Atheros AR9460 and Acer Aspire V17 Nitro on FreeBSD 11 not working To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Anders Bolt-Evensen , freebsd-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 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, 20 Mar 2015 18:22:21 -0000 On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 20 March 2015 at 09:52, Anders Bolt-Evensen > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Recently I had to buy a new computer as my Mac broke down. > > I ended up with an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro, which, except for a couple of > > problems, is all good. > > One of the problems is that wifi does not work. The wifi driver is an > > Atheros AR9460. > > The problem is that when I attempt to scan for my wireless network, > nothing > > shows up at all. > > On my previous computer, where I used an external Atheros card, > everything > > worked well. > > Could the following line from dmesg be a symptom of my problems? > > "ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0000" > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 11-CURRENT with sources updated today. > > > What else does it log? > I have this same card on a acer s3 (utltrabook) @adrian this is the one I reported the performance issues but now seems to be working ok. For the record this is with --> r280273 commit d7efe7e99e68d52fa754f4e935814c492d818ece Author: pfg Date: Fri Mar 20 01:07:48 2015 +0000 Permit multiple arguments for the nonnull attribute. This is very useful for non-trivial functions and doesn't affect existing uses. MFC after: 5 days Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=280273 I'm noticing something wron with "ifconfig scan" too, it listed fine as a normal user, but that's not really re-scanning... % ifconfig wlan0 scan SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS **** *:1c:68 1 54M -93:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME **** *:13:c0 6 54M -80:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WME **** *:e2:0c 6 54M -83:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WME **** *:f7:8c 6 54M -109:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME **** *:4a:12 11 54M -91:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME **** *:13:c4 48 54M -80:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WME Trying with sudo gets in a hanged state... [user@host:/usr/src ]% sudo ifconfig wlan0 scan load: 0.17 cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 35.72r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k load: 0.17 cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 36.20r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k load: 0.19 cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 187.79r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k load: 0.19 cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 187.94r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k load: 0.19 cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 188.08r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k ^C but after the ^C as a normal user again and: ifconfig wlan0 scan SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS ***** *:1c:68 1 54M -94:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME ***** *:13:c0 6 54M -80:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WME ***** *:e2:0c 6 54M -83:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WME ***** *:f7:8c 6 54M -130:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME ***** *:4a:12 1 54M -91:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME ***** *:13:c4 48 54M -80:-96 100 EP RSN HTCAP WME ***** ... *:99:01 6 54M -96:-96 100 E <------- This is new so it re-scanned I see nothing in dmesg > > -adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >