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Date:      Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:30:59 -0500
From:      Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Atheros 9462 detected but nonfunctional
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Weird.

The scan showed nothing. 

vmstat shows

irq19  ath0            998         3

(typing on a phone, so the spacing is different) 

On March 8, 2016 5:44:53 PM EST, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
>ok, does 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' show anything?
>
>It's showing that the air is busy (TFCNT, RFCNT, RCCNT, CCCNT) so the
>radio and PHY is on.
>
>what's vmstat -ia | grep ath0 show?
>
>
>-adrian
>
>On 8 March 2016 at 14:40, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote:
>> Attached. Both pciconf and athregs
>>
>> The price of the laptop varies based on what options you pick.
>However, its
>> supply chain is pretty backlogged at the moment, so expect delays if
>you
>> order one.
>>
>> On March 8, 2016 8:45:05 AM EST, Adrian Chadd
><adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> compile and use 'athregs'. For now, you need to manually use it on
>>> wlan0 after it's created (it no longer works on ath0):
>>>
>>> athregs -i wlan0
>>>
>>> And report back what it says.
>>>
>>> I bet it's just rfkill and we need to configure it up properly. How
>>> much is the laptop?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 March 2016 at 05:42, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  There are, but I've tried flipping it on and off to no avail.
>Also, the
>>>>  current setting is confirmed to be on in Linux.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Just to make absolute certain I'm not screwing something up, what
>is the
>>>>  best way to see what the card is doing at the low level?
>>>>
>>>>  On March 8, 2016 8:38:42 AM EST, Adrian Chadd
><adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  i wonder if its an rfkill switch setting. Is there an rfkill
>switch or
>>>>>  button?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  -a
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On 8 March 2016 at 05:29, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I am trying to diagnose an issue with an Atheros 9462 card. 
>The card
>>>>>> is
>>>>>>  being detected, and seemingly works (reports no errors with
>>>>>> wpa_supplicant
>>>>>>  and friends), however, the radios seem completely nonfunctional,
>as
>>>>>> the card
>>>>>>  doesn't actually transmit or receive anything (I checked by
>turning on
>>>>>>  packet logging and running scans/wpa_supplicant).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   There are errors reported in pciconf (it claims they are
>correctable
>>>>>>  errors): receiver error, bad tlp, bad dllp.  The Bluetooth
>subsystem
>>>>>> also
>>>>>>  suffered
>>>>>> timeouts (very likely related).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I have confirmed this is not a hardware problem by booting into
>Linux
>>>>>>  with a live
>>>>>>  memstick and running a scan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I'm looking for advise on likely root causes and how to go
>about
>>>>>>  diagnosing the problem (I've never diagnosed a problem on a
>>>>>> *supported* card
>>>>>>  in FreeBSD before, so I'm relatively unfamiliar with the
>process).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Best,
>>>>>>   Eric
>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>
>>
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Subject: Re: Atheros 9462 detected but nonfunctional
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
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Ok, do:

wlandebug -i wlan0 +scan

then re-do the scan and see what's listed in dmesg.

I mean, it's seeing /something/.



-adrian



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