FBSD10 Atheros wifi not working

Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Sun Apr 20 07:36:51 UTC 2014


On 04/20/14 00:34, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 18 April 2014 05:42, Da Rock
> <freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>> Skipped another thought - I wouldn't have thought the laptop I have was too
>> badly built, and how would the noise cause the error messages? I didn't have
>> that many messages for the iwn in the m/c's prior, is it just the atheros
>> chipsets? I kind of expect some reconnection issues, but the hardware reset
>> messages (from 9.x) were disconcerting - these current ones are obviously
>> worse.
>>
>> And I meant to add: where do I go now? Should I send you the logs or other
>> errors?
>
> Well, I highly recommend rebuilding with debugging in your kernel config:
>
> * ATH_DEBUG
> * AH_DEBUG
> * ATH_DIAGAPI
Thats already been done, as per last (second to last?) post. All it 
really managed to do was crash the system.
>
> And then figure out why you can't build the ath tools.
>
> The output from athstats will likely be helpful.
>
> The reset stuff is interesting - it means the NIC is taking way too
> long to finish some task. Normally grabbing that lock doesn't take too
> long, but something has your NIC angry.
>
> Yes, please compile up athstats at least. :-)
It'd have to be athstats, wouldn't it? Right where it stops compiling 
with an error (why would it be using gcc still?). I'll give it a shot...

Thanks Adrian. And let me know if you want that mini pcie.
>
>
> -a
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