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Subject: Re: Odd error messages on wireless 11a connection
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:37:58 -0700
>> From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
>>
>> Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>     
>>> I am at a major networking conference and my wireless, while working, is
>>> logging lots of errors that I don't understand at all.
>>>
>>> +update_stats: bogus ndx0 7, max 7, mode 1
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain what these are? Do I need to be concerned?
>>>
>>> Atheros 5212 on FreeBSD current as of Oct. 5, i386, single processor
>>> system. 
>>> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xb4000000-0xb400ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci11
>>> ath0: [ITHREAD]
>>> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>>> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:14:a4:60:f2:e3
>>> ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
>>>   
>>>       
>> Update your ath driver.  You've found an ap that is beaconing a "pureg" 
>> rate set and a recent change to the sample rate code broke that.
>>     
>
> Thanks, Sam, but I'm running 1.177 which looks like the latest in
> CVS. Do you have anything more recent that is not yet committed or is
> there still a problem?
>   
 From cvs log ath_rate/sample/sample.c:

revision 1.19
date: 2007/10/13 22:30:41;  author: sam;  state: Exp;  lines: +34 -18
revert 1.18: the negotiated rate set may not match the hal
rate tables, so using the hal's rateCodeToIndex array
will produce wrong indices for the negotiated rate set

MFC after:      3 days

And ignore my blathering about pureg/pureb/whatever.  Just update.

    Sam