Re: RELENG_7 and atheros ....

On 11/15/2007 22:08, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having some strangeness with respect to my atheros based card on
> releng_7.  This may not sound like much... but together they concern me.
>  I'm wondering if anyone has seen similar things.
> 
>   1) I've seen two panics while trying to bring the interface up over
> the last few weeks.
>   2) I get disconnected every night from my wireless router at home.
> 99% of the time it happens after I've gone to bed.  Once or twice...
> while I was sitting in front of it.  It just disassociates?
>   3) When I am at the office,  my card will *never* obtain an ip address
> from our DHCP server upon first booting.  I must *always* down the
> interface, kill dhclient, bring the interface up and start dhclient.
> 

As a follow up for the list...
I rebuilt world and kernel on Nov 22nd.  Since this time I have not
noticed the above mentioned issue #3.  I did not dig through any commit
logs... but appears as though something changed to fix it.

Fwiw...
Note that I did make a change to fix item #2 on the advice of another
FreeBSD'er.  That change did not affect item #3.  I did still see item
#3 occurring until I rebuilt on the 22nd.

Thanks to all.

> Note that "nothing" has changed aside from upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0.  By
> this I mean I've used all/most/many of the same config files to
> configure things.  Maybe thats the problem, I don't know.
> 
> What can I provide that might offer insight?  Below is a little.
> 
> uname
> FreeBSD fangorn.nxdomain.org 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sat Nov  3
> 01:59:25 CDT 2007
> 
> From dmesg:
> ############################
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xfafe0000-0xfafeffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
> ############################
> 
> From rc.conf
> ###########################
> network_interfaces="lo0 bfe0 ath0"
> ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
> ifconfig_bfe0="DHCP"
> ############################
> 
> My wpa_supplicant.conf
> ############################
> # Home
> network={
>   ssid="My_SSID"
>   scan_ssid=1
>   priority=5
>   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>   psk="My_PSK"
> }
> 
> # Office
> network={
>   ssid="Work_SSID"
>   key_mgmt=NONE
>   priority=3
> }
> ##########################
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 


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Regards,
Eric