Problem with ath(4) RELENG_8

Vincent Hoffman vince at unsane.co.uk
Mon May 17 19:04:35 UTC 2010


On 17/05/2010 04:14, Guillermo Amaral wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Guillermo Amaral <g at maral.me> wrote:
>   
>> I have been using RELENG_8 for a while and some time ago the wireless driver
>> started acting funny, by this I mean that for example in RELENG_8_0 the ath
>> driver radio switch works, I can connect AND stay connected with out a hitch.
>>
>> In RELENG_8 it has progressively gone from good to bad to worse, at first the
>> radio on/off switch stopped working (it did change color but the driver never
>> really turned off the radio), then any wifi I connected to stopped responding
>> after about 5 minutes, I then need to restart wlan0 for it to reconnect
>> and give me 5 more minutes, now the wifi radio switch won't even change color.
>>
>> I thought maybe this was something temporary but just in case it's not and
>> nobody knows that this is going on I decided to send this mail.
>>     
> Anybody know where I can send this to? I'm thinking this was not the
> right mailing-list then. :S
>
>   
I've recently submitted a pr (kern/146517)  about problems with an
AR5B91 (same chip id)  so its been registered there is an issue but feel
free to try -net if you like as it may not be the same.

Vince



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