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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:50:59 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   a wireless network freezes the machine?
Message-ID:  <20120928155059.GA60368@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>

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Dear Colleagues,

Running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, 
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xfe400000-0xfe40ffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci7
ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5

I have run this box for a long time as a WiFi access point for my
home laptops and smartphones and never had a problem, the config was:

# Wi-Fi setup
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
hostapd_enable="YES"

However several days ago I had to run the box as a WiFi client, with 

ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP WPA"
hostapd_enable="NO"

and it began to freeze frequently. It freezes very hard, only the
reset button helps.

Is it possible that wpa_supplicant or some other part of the WiFi
setup causes the hangs? Nothing else has changed in the system besides
its role from the access point to a WiFi client.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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