Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:39:06 -0500 From: "Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp@gmail.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: I lost ath0 support on current sometime between Sept 20 and Sept 26. Message-ID: <7affaed60810091639n2714fae1mbd34048bc8be89c3@mail.gmail.com>
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I started this thread on current but I lost it to Ashish Shukla so I'm going to try here and see if I can explain it better and solve this strange issue. I was happily using Sam's ath_hal-20080528 patch and IIRC the committed ath_hal fixes until Sept 20. I didn't build another new kernel until Sept 26. From that date on I have been unable to get it working. The sept 20 kernel still works great. I'm using it to send this email. I don't have to change anything I just start kernel.old and run it rather than today's kernel that has no problems other than bringing up ath0/wlan0. Some general info for both kernels that I can find no important differences and now really doubt that the problem is hal_ath but something else that has changed and is causing the problem. I have thought of dhcp, ifconfig, ??? The general information for both follows: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #50: Thu Oct 9 05:27:41 CDT 2008 root@ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO rc.conf that doesn't change and works for sept 20 kernel but not todays: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1" ifconfig with todays kernel for ath0 and wlan0: ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid virus channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL The part of the dmesg that show ath0 and wlan0 with hal ath_hal: 0.10.5.10 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417) ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xd0400000-0xd040ffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The same information for the Sept 20 kernel. FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #34: Sat Sep 20 05:37:05 CDT 2008 root@ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO i386 rc.conf is the same. If config for Sept 20 kernel: ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5 inet 172.16.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/5.5Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid virus channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst Same parts of the dmesg form Sept 20 kernel. ath_hal: 0.10.5.10 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417) ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xd0400000-0xd040ffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2 Thanks, ed
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