From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 03:09:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAFB106564A for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:09:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geoff@apro.com.au) Received: from mail.ricksure.com.au (mail.ricksure.com.au [203.98.89.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985638FC08 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 171.78.233.220.static.exetel.com.au [220.233.78.171] by mail.ricksure.com.au with SMTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:08:39 +1000 From: Geoff Roberts Organization: Australian Projects To: Adrian Chadd Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:08:30 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-33-generic; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201108290134.50561.geoff@apro.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108291308.30442.geoff@apro.com.au> X-Declude-Sender: geoff@apro.com.au [220.233.78.171] X-Declude-Spoolname: 46147820.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.6.35 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [0] at 13:08:42 on 29 Aug 2011 X-Declude-Tests: Whitelisted X-Country-Chain: X-Declude-Code: 0 X-Declude-Recipcount: 2 Organization: Declude, Inc. X-Helo: ubuntutest-01.localnet X-RevDNS: Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: geoff@apro.com.au List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:09:16 -0000 Hi Adrian, Thanks very much for getting back. On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:06:22 am you wrote: > Were you always running a 64 bit kernel? Are you able to please try > booting a 32 bit kernel? Yes, it was always a 64 bit kernel. I'll download the i386 8.2 R CD and give that a go. > > I need a card capable of running Multiple Base Stations or Virtual Access > > Points (VAP) - another reason for looking for a newer card. > > The NIC you have will do that just fine. Sorry I didn't explain that very well. I wanted to use hostapd to manage the access points. hostapd seems to need different MAC addresses for each virtual access point. I couldn't find a way to assign different MAC addresses for each virtual access point for hostapd with this particular card. Have I understood that correctly? I wasn't 100% sure of my reading of the hostap config file. Are there any Atheros based cards you know of that work with hostapd in this way? > Are you able to boot things on the older hardware and see what the > above debugging gives? > Eg what the attach line is on your amd64 box? I think I'll be lucky. The display system completely went on the old system - trying PCI or AGP graphics cards didn't make any difference. I'll see if I can rig a serial cable to another machine to watch the boot process. I'll try the i386 8.2 R download first and see if I have any luck with the old system before it goes out for permanent retirement (that'll take a few days). Kind regards, Geoff