ath(4) panic + stuck beacon issue
Jeremy Chadwick
freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Sun Feb 27 16:01:49 UTC 2011
I have a crash report to provide (for RELENG_8 dated 2010/02/12), but
I'd like to know who's maintaining ath(4) at this point in time.
I also need to discuss a commonly-reported issue with AR5416 and/or
AR9280 cards (e.g. D-Link DWA-552 running in 802.11g mode w/ WEP)
spitting out "stuck beacon" errors, which are what I was trying to
resolve when the kernel crashed. (I induced the crash, but I'm not sure
exactly why/how).
Given that the issue has existed for years now...
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3388
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5983
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=21374.0
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=32041.0
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r25070916-FreeBSD-MIPS-dev-Adrian-Chad-on-stuck-beacon-issue
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22112 (recent & thorough!)
...and "bintval 1000" does not solve it, let's work together to find a
solution. If you need hardware I will be more than happy to buy you
(brand new) cards which you can keep. If you have beta/test drivers
and/or can provide *thorough* debugging instructions, I will be more
than happy to do what I can.
I'll also point out the Linux madwifi folks have an *entire page*
dedicated to this problem, which is quite interesting:
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/StuckBeacon
If a workaround or solution isn't plausible, what cards do people
actually recommend that work reliably / have reliable drivers? I was
under the impression Atheros cards were reliable/decent compared to,
say, Broadcom. Is iwn(4) reliable?
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