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Subject: Re: kern/143868: [ath] [patch] [request] allow Atheros watchdog
	timeout to be tunable
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Synopsis: [ath] [patch] [request] allow Atheros watchdog timeout to be tunable

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Submitter reports thus:

==
The Soekris box net5501 I use as my router/WAP/server used to report timeouts every few seconds. I upped that timeout value by changing the code to fix it (well, actually, reduce it to a managable level). It seemed that this should be tunable via a sysctl instead.

I've added a second antenna for diversity and that seems to have fixed the problem completely. So, I don't need it any longer.
==

This is a common problem - if not all antennas are configured, the
radio/baseband can incorrectly calibrate things and it shows up
as a "stuck beacon".


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143868