From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 17:55:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58BB16A41B for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=f5beabfffbdd20c38f98f3136757b7a2d047a54d=489=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal3.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F65C13C4A6 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=f5beabfffbdd20c38f98f3136757b7a2d047a54d=489=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id UBS75020; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:55:20 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 7F9964500E; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:55:20 -0700 (PDT) To: Sam Leffler In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:20:09 PDT." <4713A149.9010301@errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1192470920_62484P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:55:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20071015175520.7F9964500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Sam Leffler X-To_Domain: errno.com X-To: Sam Leffler X-To_Email: sam@errno.com X-To_Alias: sam Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd error messages on wireless 11a connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:26 -0000 --==_Exmh_1192470920_62484P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:20:09 -0700 > From: Sam Leffler > > Sam Leffler wrote: > > 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: 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. > > Actually your interface is marked "pureb" and the ap is sending an 11g > rate set but the answer is the same--update ath_rate/sample.c. OK. I updated and no longer am seeing the messages. Thanks! One issue...I booted with WPA DHCP and the system skipped the higher priority 11a net and associated with the b/g net. I did a 'list aps' and only saw 2 APs, both 11g. I know that there should have been more, so I did a 'scan' and all the rest appeared, including the 11a APs. (Total of 8 APs, 4 11b/g and 4 11a.) The supplicant now associated with the 11a net and my system is running MUCH better! Any idea if this is a timing issue? Any way to improve the initial scan? Thanks again for the very fast responses. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1192470920_62484P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHE6mIkn3rs5h7N1ERAgmDAJ4w5z2vMdGXdOSgzuWvRuhC/HIf1QCfUbs2 /AAW+FOHGuOIWnBX0YLe2kY= =DizE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1192470920_62484P--