From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 07:00:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@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 8ED8D5E8 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AF6F626 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t2I70iad077658 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:00:44 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 198680] [ath] Specifying "mode 11ng" breaks client connectivity with ath(4) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:00:43 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: wireless X-Bugzilla-Version: 11.0-CURRENT X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: cmb@pfsense.org X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: bug_id short_desc product version rep_platform op_sys bug_status bug_severity priority component assigned_to reporter Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:00:44 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198680 Bug ID: 198680 Summary: [ath] Specifying "mode 11ng" breaks client connectivity with ath(4) Product: Base System Version: 11.0-CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: wireless Assignee: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Reporter: cmb@pfsense.org Version: 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r279813: Mon Mar 9 16:31:08 UTC 2015 Configure an ath card as a client with "mode 11ng" specified, and it doesn't work. For instance, this rc.conf: wlans_ath0="ath0_wlan0" ifconfig_ath0_wlan0="mode 11ng ssid test_network DHCP" The interface ends up endlessly stuck at "no carrier". ath0_wlan0: flags=8c43 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:80:48:79:99:f2 inet6 fe80::280:48ff:fe79:99f2%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 nd6 options=21 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid test_network channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b) country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 27 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 wme burst bintval 0 groups: wlan Run ifconfig more, and you'll see the channel continues to change over and over. A small sampling: ssid test_network channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) ssid test_network channel 3 (2422 MHz 11g) ssid test_network channel 44 (5220 MHz 11a) ssid test_network channel 9 (2452 MHz 11g) It ends up stuck in that state indefinitely. Remove "mode 11ng" from the ifconfig line in rc.conf, 'service netif restart', and it works. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.