Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:28:49 -0500 From: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> To: Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd Message-ID: <4B28D281.80706@acm.poly.edu> In-Reply-To: <110163611.20091216031952@takeda.tk> References: <110163611.20091216031952@takeda.tk>
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Multi-BSS support in 8.0 means that you first need to create a wlan pseudo-device, and run hostapd with that. The rc.conf lines look like this: wlans_ath0="wlan0" create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap" ifconfig_wlan0="ssid networkname media autoselect up" -Boris Derek Kulinski wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded my access point (from 7.1 to 8.0) and can't make > hostapd work (looks like wide-dhcp relay also has a problem with ath0): > > [mayumi]:/root# hostapd -P /var/run/hostapd.pid -dd /etc/hostapd.conf > Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf > Line 2: DEPRECATED: 'debug' configuration variable is not used anymore > ctrl_interface_group=0 (from group name 'wheel') > pcap_open_live: > ifname='ath0' > bsd driver initialization failed. > ath0: Unable to setup interface. > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory > Exit 255 > > Output from dmesg: > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf4000000-0xf400ffff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0 > ath0: [ITHREAD] > ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5 > > The interface seems to exist, but seems it lost some of its > functionality: > [mayumi]:/root# ifconfig ath0 > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 00:11:95:e5:70:df > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > [mayumi]:/root# ifconfig ath0 list cap > ifconfig: Don't know how to list cap for ath0 > > What's going on? The card worked pretty well with 7.1. > > I tried to compile kernel just with "device ath_ar5212" > but I'm only getting this: > > ah.o(.text+0x212): In function `ath_hal_rfprobe': > /usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__start_set_ah_rfs' > ah.o(.text+0x21f):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__stop_set_ah_rfs' > ah.o(.text+0x235):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__stop_set_ah_rfs' > >
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