From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 13:01:44 2009 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 528E51065679 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:01:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@martenvijn.nl) Received: from mail.math.leidenuniv.nl (84e5e739.math.leidenuniv.nl [132.229.231.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C0F8FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [132.229.231.13] (polaris.math.leidenuniv.nl [132.229.231.13]) by mail.math.leidenuniv.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1556E833; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:44:51 +0100 (CET) From: Marten Vijn To: Derek Kulinski In-Reply-To: <110163611.20091216031952@takeda.tk> References: <110163611.20091216031952@takeda.tk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:44:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1260967492.7721.18.camel@polaris> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd 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: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:01:44 -0000 On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 03:19 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded my access point (from 7.1 to 8.0) and can't make > hostapd work (looks like wide-dhcp relay also has a problem with ath0): > The ifconfig usage changed in 8.0 The Handbook is not correct: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html see: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8784 and a small tutorial from my hand: http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/ap may show usefull command and config for you. Here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html the Handbook is not correct... I hope this helps, cheers, Marten > [mayumi]:/root# hostapd -P /var/run/hostapd.pid -dd /etc/hostapd.conf > Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf > Line 2: DEPRECATED: 'debug' configuration variable is not used anymore > ctrl_interface_group=0 (from group name 'wheel') > pcap_open_live: > ifname='ath0' > bsd driver initialization failed. > ath0: Unable to setup interface. > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory > Exit 255 > > Output from dmesg: > ath0: mem 0xf4000000-0xf400ffff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0 > ath0: [ITHREAD] > ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5 > > The interface seems to exist, but seems it lost some of its > functionality: > [mayumi]:/root# ifconfig ath0 > ath0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 00:11:95:e5:70:df > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > [mayumi]:/root# ifconfig ath0 list cap > ifconfig: Don't know how to list cap for ath0 > > What's going on? The card worked pretty well with 7.1. > > I tried to compile kernel just with "device ath_ar5212" > but I'm only getting this: > > ah.o(.text+0x212): In function `ath_hal_rfprobe': > /usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__start_set_ah_rfs' > ah.o(.text+0x21f):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__stop_set_ah_rfs' > ah.o(.text+0x235):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__stop_set_ah_rfs' > -- Marten Vijn linux 2.0.18 OpenBSD 3.6 FreeBSD 4.6 http://martenvijn.nl http://opencommunitycamp.org http://wifisoft.org