From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 21:31:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B24106566C for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:31:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglistmember@mgwigglesworth.net) Received: from mail.mgwigglesworth.net (mail.mgwigglesworth.com [75.146.26.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF418FC14 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:31:17 +0000 (UTC) To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:20:34 -0400 Envelope-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4E5D5422.9040609@mgwigglesworth.net> From: "Martes G Wigglesworth" Received: from devsecure.mgwigglesworth.net (192.168.5.12 [192.168.5.12]) by mail.mgwigglesworth.net; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:21:17 -0400 Organization: M. G. Wigglesworth Holdings, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110817 Fedora/3.1.12-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Commands for AR5212 cause system to hang using 8.2-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mailinglistmember@mgwigglesworth.net List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:31:18 -0000 Greetings all. I am attempting to get a newer 8.2-based router up and running, and during my development process, I discovered that the wireless AR5212 card was not blinking, as it did when installed on the current router box. Upon further reading, into the differences between FBSD7 and FBSD8 wireless setup, I attempted to get it runing with no luck. On the command line, the following causes the running terminal to hault, or at least to appear to hault, and become non-reactive to keyboard input: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 Here is the output from ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:1b:2f:37:02:46 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier Here is the output from rc.conf setting which are relivant: wlans_ath0="wlan0" create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap" ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid "wrouter0" mode 54g channel 1" Here is my loader.conf file output: wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" lan_xauth_load="YES" wlan_acl_load="YES" if_lagg_load="YES" if_ath_load="YES" accf_http_load="YES" When I put the rc.conf variables in place, it hung the boot process, just after initialization of the gateway port. (fxp0) What should I look for, in attempting to figure this out? I have also noticed that while the FBSD-8 Handbook provides references to utilizing /etc/netif start this file does not exist on this 8-Stable install. I installed and upgraded from source, from 8.1-PRERELEASE, last spring or fall, and have just now started to really get this setup going, hence the older version. The system is an old PIII-866Mhz server board, with three quad-port interfaces and a fourth, which is wireless. (while I wait for the Atom D525 system to get here.) There is no "output" to list, given that the system hangs each time, without any debug, or kernel panic indicators. In fact the system only hangs on the incident user space, because you can still login and utilize ssh sessions, as well as anything else that is running. I use the terms "system hang" because acpi requests from the power switch are ignored, due to the system not being "ready" so I just have to hard reset. Any input would be most appreciated. -- -- Respectfully, Martes G Wigglesworth M. G. Wigglesworth Holdings, LLC www.mgwigglesworth.net