I lost ath0 support on current sometime between Sept 20 and
Sept 26.
Edwin L. Culp W.
edwinlculp at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 03:09:15 UTC 2008
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Johann Hugo <jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 October 2008, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Edwin L. Culp W. <edwinlculp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >> Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
>> >>> I started this thread on current but I lost it to Ashish Shukla so I'm
>> >>> going to try here and see if I can explain it better and solve this
>> >>> strange issue.
>> >>>
>> >>> I was happily using Sam's ath_hal-20080528 patch and IIRC the
>> >>> committed ath_hal fixes until Sept 20. I didn't build another new
>> >>> kernel until Sept 26. From that date on I have been unable to get it
>> >>> working. The sept 20 kernel still works great. I'm using it to send
>> >>> this email. I don't have to change anything I just start kernel.old
>> >>> and run it rather than today's kernel that has no problems other than
>> >>> bringing up ath0/wlan0.
>> >>>
>> >>> Some general info for both kernels that I can find no important
>> >>> differences and now really doubt that the problem is hal_ath but
>> >>> something else that has changed and is causing the problem. I have
>> >>> thought of dhcp, ifconfig, ??? The general information for both
>> >>> follows:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #50: Thu Oct 9 05:27:41 CDT 2008
>> >>> root at ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO
>> >>>
>> >>> rc.conf that doesn't change and works for sept 20 kernel but not
>> >>> todays:
>> >>>
>> >>> wlans_ath0=wlan0
>> >>> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515
>> >>> weptxkey 1"
>> >>>
>> >>> ifconfig with todays kernel for ath0 and wlan0:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> >>> 2290 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
>> >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>> >>> status: associated
>> >>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> >>> 1500
>> >>> ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
>> >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g
>> >>> status: associated
>> >>> ssid virus channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d
>> >>> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
>> >>> wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan
>> >>> bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode
>> >>> CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL
>> >>>
>> >>> The part of the dmesg that show ath0 and wlan0 with hal
>> >>>
>> >>> ath_hal: 0.10.5.10 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112,
>> >>> RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
>> >>>
>> >>> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xd0400000-0xd040ffff irq 19 at device
>> >>> 0.0 on pci5
>> >>> ath0: [ITHREAD]
>> >>> ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>> >>> ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>>-------------------------
>> >>>
>> >>> The same information for the Sept 20 kernel.
>> >>>
>> >>> FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #34: Sat Sep
>> >>> 20 05:37:05 CDT 2008
>> >>> root at ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO i386
>> >>>
>> >>> rc.conf is the same.
>> >>>
>> >>> If config for Sept 20 kernel:
>> >>>
>> >>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> >>> 2290 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
>> >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>> >>> status: associated
>> >>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> >>> 1500
>> >>> ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
>> >>> inet 172.16.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
>> >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/5.5Mbps mode 11g
>> >>> status: associated
>> >>> ssid virus channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d
>> >>> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
>> >>> wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
>> >>> bgscanintvl 300
>> >>> bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst
>> >>>
>> >>> Same parts of the dmesg form Sept 20 kernel.
>> >>>
>> >>> ath_hal: 0.10.5.10 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112,
>> >>> RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
>> >>>
>> >>> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xd0400000-0xd040ffff irq 19 at device
>> >>> 0.0 on pci5
>> >>> ath0: [ITHREAD]
>> >>> ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>> >>> ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2
>> >>
>> >> Does it work w/o WEP? Do you any crypto errors show up in wlanstats
>> >> and/or athstats output?
>> >>
>> >> Sam
>> >
>> > I haven't tried it and I should have since I'm pretty sure that it is
>> > something external. I've got travel in a few minutes but I'll do it
>> > tomorrow on my AP at home to not interrupt anyone.
>>
>> Good morning, Sam. I just disabled encryption on my router and
>> changed my rc.conf to
>> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus2"
>> and as you probably knew, it works flawlessly.
>>
>> Now I have to ask, what I can do about wep that works on my Sept 20
>> and earlier kernels and doesn't work on my recent kernels?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ed
>
> I don't know it this is related, but something changed with the WEP-key index.
> On my EeePC I had to change my wpa_supplicant.conf file to use
> wep_tx_keyidx=0 and wep_key0=mywepkey before I could get it to work.
> I the past it always worked with wep_tx_keyidx=1 and wep_key1=xxxxx.
>
> The funny thing is that ifconfig reports it as deftxkey 1 and wepkey 1 if I
> use index 0 in wpa_supplicant and ifconfig will report deftxkey 2 and wepkey
> 2 if I use index 1 in wpa_supplicant.conf
Thanks Johann. I just tried it an it didn't seem to do it but it was
certainly worth trying.
Thanks again,
ed
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