SR71-A (AR9160) no longer detected in FreeBSD 9

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 1 02:14:45 UTC 2012


Do

ifconfig -v wlan0 list channel



Adrian

On 31 January 2012 18:14, Shant Kassardjian <shant at skylab.ca> wrote:

>  Yes, in 8.x it worked perfectly fine.
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> I just restarted the machine and "ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal
> status 14 " error is gone  but still can't enable N.
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> core# ifconfig wlan0 channel 6:ht/40
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
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> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:06:39 -0800
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> Subject: Re: SR71-A (AR9160) no longer detected in FreeBSD 9
> From: adrian at freebsd.org
> To: shant at skylab.ca
> CC: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
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> On 31 January 2012 18:00, Shant Kassardjian <shant at skylab.ca> wrote:
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>  Hi Adrian,
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> After recompiling the kernel with device ath_pci, atheros got redetected,
> however 802.11n seems to not be working with the following errors:
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> ifconfig wlan0 destroy
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap
> wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:15:6d:84:70:d5
> core# ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 14
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> .. that's worrying. That's HAL_ESELFTEST, if that fails, bad juju.
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> This same thing works on 8.x, right?
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> Adrian
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