From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 19:04:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4B71065687 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 19:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8588FC0A for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 19:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.local ([10.0.0.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o4HJ4Uvb007135 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 17 May 2010 20:04:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BF1933E.8040205@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 20:04:30 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guillermo Amaral References: <20100511033821.GA1807@daedalus.localdomain> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with ath(4) RELENG_8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:04:35 -0000 On 17/05/2010 04:14, Guillermo Amaral wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Guillermo Amaral wrote: > >> I have been using RELENG_8 for a while and some time ago the wireless driver >> started acting funny, by this I mean that for example in RELENG_8_0 the ath >> driver radio switch works, I can connect AND stay connected with out a hitch. >> >> In RELENG_8 it has progressively gone from good to bad to worse, at first the >> radio on/off switch stopped working (it did change color but the driver never >> really turned off the radio), then any wifi I connected to stopped responding >> after about 5 minutes, I then need to restart wlan0 for it to reconnect >> and give me 5 more minutes, now the wifi radio switch won't even change color. >> >> I thought maybe this was something temporary but just in case it's not and >> nobody knows that this is going on I decided to send this mail. >> > Anybody know where I can send this to? I'm thinking this was not the > right mailing-list then. :S > > I've recently submitted a pr (kern/146517) about problems with an AR5B91 (same chip id) so its been registered there is an issue but feel free to try -net if you like as it may not be the same. Vince