From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 16:13:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7573716A400 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E71F13C45D for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l5EGDoWu007348 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <4671695F.7090202@errno.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:14:23 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl References: <20070614043216.GA90909@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4670C6F1.9060301@errno.com> <20070614044805.GA91084@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4670CCA4.3040200@errno.com> <20070614061339.GA96199@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070614061339.GA96199@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath device appears broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:13:52 -0000 Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:05:40PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: >> Steve Kargl wrote: >>> I can't find anything relevent at the moment. The 20070610 entry >>> states: >>> Users must also, for the moment, kldload the wlan_scan_sta and/or >>> wlan_scan_ap modules if they use modules for wireless support. >>> >>> I don't use modules nor compile them. Perhaps, a sentence is >>> missing that should direct people that don't use module to update >>> their kernel config file? >> Thanks, I'll add more explanation. Short answer is the scanning support >> is now broken out into separate modules that you must either load or >> specify in your kernel config file. wlan_scan_sta for sta mode >> operation. wlan_sta_ap for ap mode operation. This is comparable to >> how ciphers are split out into modules. > > OK. I've added all the wlan_* devices to my config > and the kernel boots and my script now runs. > > Thanks for responding so quickly. > > PS: I seem to get a periodic "ath0: device timeout" message > on the console. I doesn't seem to cause any problems (e.g., > long pauses). > No idea. I suspect there's a race in the tx done processing that makes the driver think there is a timeout when one is not present. Sam