From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 27 23:45:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7DA16A4C1 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:45:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gunther.mayer@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4647A13C487 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:45:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gunther.mayer@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so761194uge for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 16:45:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=bBmSOy0SQUkwPuI9Oht+XUpWjtwa90Cu+BYkep0hYZgVNStYjP2RzBvTfcjdQNOSXLkBc0K/U0WHysRzk3G97s1gqBjilbHHl5Eb8M4AvimqdfPwmjSBnuK6EW9+R9hNvcIYbAfvstiPXnnlMRadTdwISIboqKCoDE5rYqhsvKk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=EHk3tpEV4O9wn5ueckr0n1cbOHpy7iOyef1H5kYiM+TUj0cVjkN8BXEnk/K3BYe/wDVMbXjeOeYnR7xcSXXypqM0IJpP+FVlGnVW+iiWUgz/51SB/Pz+rs/yOOTGluMWQnFcUP89K9VOwMxVSP3DclNE2EDcHOj2xe7aFmdNsQM= Received: by 10.66.219.11 with SMTP id r11mr4829904ugg.1180309549116; Sun, 27 May 2007 16:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?172.25.0.6? ( [41.245.129.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id j9sm24962514mue.2007.05.27.16.45.46; Sun, 27 May 2007 16:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <465A1803.4000200@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 01:45:07 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Gunther Mayer Subject: ath0 going haywire X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 23:45:50 -0000 Hi there, My ath0 wireless interface is going crazy lately. In my logs the kernel keeps telling me May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to UP May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to UP May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to DOWN May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to DOWN while the wireless connection becomes completely useless. The first time this happened was 5 days ago when I got these messages every couple of minutes. Today it happened again but much worse than before: First 4 such messages every 3 seconds, then later 15/sec!!! This kept going for almost 2 hours while I tried to debug things over the wired interface, but I had no luck until miraculously it stopped its madness and came back to normal 15 min ago. No other hints in /var/log/messages... This this a sign of failing hardware? Or some other obscure bug in the ath driver? My signal is pretty solid at 25-30 S:N btw so it can't be that... Gunther