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Date:      Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:51:50 -0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br>
To:        yuri@rawbw.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wireless scan: 'ifconfig <iface> scan' hangs often
Message-ID:  <1228855910.1570.3.camel@k2.cwb.casa>
In-Reply-To: <493ED58E.6080307@rawbw.com>
References:  <493ED58E.6080307@rawbw.com>

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Em Ter, 2008-12-09 às 12:31 -0800, Yuri escreveu:

> I use wireless with this device:
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xcffe0000-0xcffeffff irq 16 at device 5.0 on pci0
> and very often (most of the times) 'ifconfig ath0 scan' hangs.
> 
> First time I do scan it usually succeeds but the second and subsequent 
> runs of
> this command hang in 50+% of cases.
> 
> It hangs equally when I am trying to run this command when network is 
> associated and running and down.
> 
> Is this a bug in driver or what the problem might be?
> 
> Yuri

Hello Yuri....

try using ifconfig ath0 list scan

it will list the contents of the cache in the sip and never hangs....



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