Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:36:57 -0400 From: D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping Message-ID: <07f4e7f5-095e-e89e-2c55-d283ca62149c@druid.net>
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I have set up my FreeBSD box as a gateway. It used to work fine but
suddenly my hotspot keeps failing. It drops a few times a day.
Restarting hostapd gets it back up again but I really want to keep it
up. I am running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64. My WiFi card i=
s:
ath0@pci0:1:0:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x30a4168c chip=3D0x002e168c
rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
vendor =3D 'Qualcomm Atheros'
device =3D 'AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
class =3D network
It is a HP running Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz on 2 quads
and 16GB of memory.
=46rom my rc.conf:
# Internal wifi network
wlans_ath0=3Dwlan0
create_args_wlan0=3D"wlanmode hostap"
ifconfig_wlan0=3D"inet 192.168.225.1 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid druid"
hostapd_enable=3DYES
DHCPD_INTERFACES=3D"$DHCPD_INTERFACES wlan0"
If I can't keep it running can someone suggest a system test I can do to
decide that hostapd needs to be restarted?
One thing I found was lots of log entries like this:
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
=46rom reading up on that it seems that it is just a cosmetic warning.
Could this be an indication of something that is killing the hotspot?
Thanks for any insight.
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