Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:55:46 -0600 From: "Jake Baillie" <jake@stnlabs.com> To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: xbox 360 + atheros 5212 connection issues Message-ID: <0D51275610C0C04588FA911C811B687E02480269@be18.exg4.exghost.com>
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Hello, I'm having trouble getting an Xbox 360 to connect to my newly upgraded FreeBSD based wireless access point. The Xbox 360 can successfully locate the AP in a scan, but when trying to connect it simply fails. If you've never used an Xbox 360 before it is quite useless in reporting debugging information, so all debugging will either have to come from the FreeBSD box or perhaps another computer set to monitor mode. I'd like to request some help in debugging this as I have no idea where to start. The FreeBSD box is running 8-RELEASE. Datapoints: 1. The Xbox connected successfully to my FreeBSD 7-RELEASE based AP with no issues. 2. The Xbox connected successfully to multiple off the shelf consumer grade APs I have sitting around. 3. The Xbox cannot connect to a Linux based AP using madwifi-0.9.4 or later trunk versions. It also cannot connect using the (more recent) ath5k driver on Linux. I only mention this as I tried setting up a Slackware box out of frustration to no avail. (FYI - there is a very old ticket on the madwifi site that was never closed with the exact problem that I am having: http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/1509) 4. Many other devices are connecting successfully to the 8-RELEASE AP including a couple of netbooks, a laptop, a Canon wireless printer, an iPod touch, a BlackBerry, and an Apple Wireless bridge. 5. The network is using WPA2-PSK through hostapd. Turning off authentication and opening the network completely does not help. -- The hardware is a Cisco Aironet PCI card with an Atheros 5212 chip: # dmesg | grep ath ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe1300000-0xe130ffff irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci5 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: AR5212 mac 5.9 RF5112 phy 4.3 # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:40:96:b8:13:53 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap> status: running # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=3D8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> = metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:40:96:b8:13:53 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap> status: running ssid freebsd channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:40:96:b8:13:53 regdomain FCC3 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 21 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs Any help is appreciated. cheers, -- jake
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