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

Shant Kassardjian shant at skylab.ca
Wed Feb 1 02:18:22 UTC 2012


Here's what it outputs, no N support? I double checked and I compiled with options         ATH_ENABLE_11N      # 802.11N support....





core# ifconfig -v wlan0 list channel                                          ~
Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11b          Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11b
Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11g          Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11g
Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11g ht/20
Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11g ht/40-
Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11b          Channel  36 : 5180      MHz 11a
Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11g          Channel  36 : 5180      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  36 : 5180      MHz 11a ht/40+
Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  40 : 5200      MHz 11a
Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11b          Channel  40 : 5200      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11g          Channel  40 : 5200      MHz 11a ht/40-
Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  44 : 5220      MHz 11a
Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  44 : 5220      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11b          Channel  44 : 5220      MHz 11a ht/40+
Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11g          Channel  48 : 5240      MHz 11a
Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  48 : 5240      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  48 : 5240      MHz 11a ht/40-
Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11b          Channel  52 : 5260      MHz 11a
Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g          Channel  52 : 5260      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  52 : 5260      MHz 11a ht/40+
Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  56 : 5280      MHz 11a
Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel  56 : 5280      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11b          Channel  56 : 5280      MHz 11a ht/40-
Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g          Channel  60 : 5300      MHz 11a
Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  60 : 5300      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  60 : 5300      MHz 11a ht/40+
Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel  64 : 5320      MHz 11a
Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11b          Channel  64 : 5320      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g          Channel  64 : 5320      MHz 11a ht/40-
Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 149 : 5745      MHz 11a
Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel 149 : 5745      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel 149 : 5745      MHz 11a ht/40+
Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11b          Channel 153 : 5765      MHz 11a
Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11g          Channel 153 : 5765      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 153 : 5765      MHz 11a ht/40-
Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel 157 : 5785      MHz 11a
Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11b          Channel 157 : 5785      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11g          Channel 157 : 5785      MHz 11a ht/40+
Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 161 : 5805      MHz 11a
Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel 161 : 5805      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11b          Channel 161 : 5805      MHz 11a ht/40-
Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11g          Channel 165 : 5825      MHz 11a
Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 165 : 5825      MHz 11a ht/20
Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11g ht/40-



Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:14:44 -0800
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

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.


I just restarted the machine and "ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 14 " error is gone  but still can't enable N.


core# ifconfig wlan0 channel 6:ht/40                                          

ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument






Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:06:39 -0800
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




On 31 January 2012 18:00, Shant Kassardjian <shant at skylab.ca> wrote:





Hi Adrian,


After recompiling the kernel with device ath_pci, atheros got redetected, however 802.11n seems to not be working with the following errors:


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               

.. that's worrying. That's HAL_ESELFTEST, if that fails, bad juju.



This same thing works on 8.x, right?



Adrian

 		 	   		  

 		 	   		  


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