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Date:      Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:19:18 +0100
From:      Andreas Lattka <newsletter@lattka.de>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing Liste <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cannot unload if_ath kernel module / machine does not shut down
Message-ID:  <1140956358.90767.2.camel@viggo.lattka.de>
In-Reply-To: <1140469974.1008.23.camel@viggo.lattka.de>
References:  <1140469974.1008.23.camel@viggo.lattka.de>

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Hi there,

I changed from WEP to WPA encryption, now the laptop is shutting down
correctly. Strange, why it is not working with WEP encryption?

Anyway, I am happy now!

Andreas 

Am Montag, den 20.02.2006, 22:12 +0100 schrieb Andreas Lattka:
> Hello All there,
> 
> I have got a shiny new Sony Vaio VGN-FS415E, installed FBSD6, (FreeBSD
> 6.0-RELEASE-p4). For wireless connection there is built in an Atheros
> 5212 chip. I configured the kernel conf file to include all the atheros
> modules according to the man ath:
> 
> device	ath
> device	ath_hal
> device	ath_rate_onoe,
> 
> all works well until the machine is to be shutdown. When I enter halt
> -p, or reboot, the machine starts to shut down, but stops, after the
> uptime message is displayed. Nothing more happens, I have to manually
> switch off the machine. The next time I switch on the machine, the oss
> sound will crash the machine.
> 
> I did remember, that I had no problem to shut down the machine when the
> ath modules were not used, so I cleared the ath modules from the kernel
> conf file and did include if_ath into the loader.conf. Again, all is
> going well until shutdown. Same bad behaviour. Then I tried to manually
> unload the ath modules, only ath_rate module can be unloaded, ath_hal
> gives device busy, and trying to unload the if_ath will freeze the
> machine. I confirmed that the Atheros 5211 is working well, 5212 give
> those problems.
> Does anybody have any idea how to unload the if_ath module?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Andreas
> 
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