Re: ath(4) problems after sam_wifi merge

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:42:38PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having some problems with ath after the sam_wifi branch merge.
> Basically I have all the necessary modules loaded, but scanning is not
> working well.
> 
> % kldstat | egrep wlan\|ath
>  2    1 0xc097a000 12450    if_ath.ko
>  3    3 0xc098d000 2ec38    ath_hal.ko
>  4    8 0xc09bc000 2b65c    wlan.ko
>  5    2 0xc09e8000 43e8     ath_rate.ko
> 20    1 0xc0af7000 4480     wlan_tkip.ko
> 21    1 0xc0afc000 2fec     wlan_wep.ko
> 22    1 0xc0aff000 7100     wlan_ccmp.ko
> 23    1 0xc0b07000 1920     wlan_scan_ap.ko
> 24    1 0xc0b09000 552c     wlan_scan_sta.ko
> 
> Is anything missing?
> 
> My card is:
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0x90100000-0x9010ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
> 
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:17:f2:44:ba:50
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g)
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 34 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 14 roam:rate11g 5
>         protmode CTS burst bintval 100
> 
> # ./wlandebug 
> net.wlan.0.debug: 0xffffff<assoc,auth,scan,output,state,power,dot1x,dot1xsm,radius,raddump,radkeys,wpa,acl,wme,superg,doth,inact,roam,rate>
> 
> After ifconfig ath0 up, the scan goes as:
> 
> ath0: ieee80211_newstate: INIT -> SCAN
> ath0: ieee80211_check_scan: active scan, duration 2147483647, desired mode auto, flush
> ath0: sta_pick_bss: no scan candidate
> ath0: ieee80211_start_scan: active scan, duration 2147483647, desired mode auto, flush
> ath0: scan set 1g dwell min 200 max 2000
> ath0: scan_next: chan   1g ->   1g [active, dwell min 200 max 2000]

Does your card have any channels? show the output of 'ifconfig ath0 list
channels'

Also, are you using wpa_supplicant or passing any other options to ath
other than just up?


cheers,
Andrew