Re: Atheros AR9460 and Acer Aspire V17 Nitro on FreeBSD 11 not working

From: Miguel Clara <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:21:59 +0000
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 20 March 2015 at 09:52, Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87_at_icloud.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Recently I had to buy a new computer as my Mac broke down.
> > I ended up with an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro, which, except for a couple of
> > problems, is all good.
> > One of the problems is that wifi does not work. The wifi driver is an
> > Atheros AR9460.
> > The problem is that when I attempt to scan for my wireless network,
> nothing
> > shows up at all.
> > On my previous computer, where I used an external Atheros card,
> everything
> > worked well.
> > Could the following line from dmesg be a symptom of my problems?
> > "ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0000"
> >
> > I'm using FreeBSD 11-CURRENT with sources updated today.
>
>
> What else does it log?
>

I have this same card on a acer s3 (utltrabook)

_at_adrian this is the one I reported the performance issues but now seems to
be working ok.

For the record this is with --> r280273

commit d7efe7e99e68d52fa754f4e935814c492d818ece
Author: pfg <pfg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 20 01:07:48 2015 +0000

    Permit multiple arguments for the nonnull attribute.

    This is very useful for non-trivial functions and doesn't
    affect existing uses.

    MFC after:  5 days

Notes:
    svn path=/head/; revision=280273


I'm noticing something wron with "ifconfig scan" too, it listed fine as a
normal user, but that's not really re-scanning...

% ifconfig wlan0 scan
SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
****       *:1c:68    1   54M -93:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
****       *:13:c0    6   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WME
****       *:e2:0c    6   54M -83:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
****      *:f7:8c    6   54M -109:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
****       *:4a:12   11   54M -91:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
****      *:13:c4   48   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME

Trying with sudo gets in a hanged state...

[user_at_host:/usr/src ]% sudo ifconfig wlan0 scan
load: 0.17  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 35.72r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
load: 0.17  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 36.20r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
load: 0.19  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 187.79r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
load: 0.19  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 187.94r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
load: 0.19  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 188.08r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k

^C

but after the ^C as a normal user again and:
ifconfig wlan0 scan
SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
*****       *:1c:68    1   54M -94:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
*****       *:13:c0    6   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WME
*****       *:e2:0c    6   54M -83:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
*****       *:f7:8c    6   54M -130:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
*****       *:4a:12    1   54M -91:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
*****       *:13:c4   48   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
***** ...   *:99:01    6   54M -96:-96  100 E  <------- This is new so it
re-scanned


I see nothing in dmesg


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