RELENG_7 && ath && WPA && stuck when bgscan is active on interface

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, July 01, 2008 a las 07:25:46AM -0700, Sam Leffler escribió:

> Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm running the above configuration, RELENG_7 kernel and WPA, on an Asus
> >laptop eeePC 900 for which one must patch the HAL with:
> >http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz )
> >all is fine, mostly, but when 'bgscan' is activated on the interface
> >ath0 it get stuck reproduce-able after some time without any traffic 
> >through
> >the interface; setting 'ifconfig ath0 -bgscan' makes the problem going
> >away;
> >
> >could it be related to the bug I'm facing on another laptop with
> >bgscan/WPA/iwi0, see:
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122331
> >  
> The hal at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam + HEAD should work fine but note 
> that it requires driver mods that are only in HEAD.
> 
> Sorry, but I cannot help w/ random collection of untested bits.
> 
>    Sam

Hello Sam,

To what you make refer with 'random collection of untested bits', to
RELENG_7 or the the above mentioned madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz?

the info about that is coming from this Wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee

is there some way to get your hal bits into RELENG_7?

thx

	matthias

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