stuck beacon hung wifi adapter AR5008

[paranormal]

Thank you Adrian, your advice was perfect.

I have a gym friend whose job is blacksmith (the friend has right hands,
and I don't), I gave him my 3 antennas, and hi made them fitted with my
wireless card.

My card is able to reset it now. Instead of hung I have:
wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
wlan0: link state changed to UP

So, thank you very much :)

On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 18:26 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So the AR5416 and later NICs almost all implement MIMO. The only
> exception is the AR9285 which is a 1x1 with the diversity
> implementation matching previous (pre-11n) NICs.
> 
> Anyway, for MIMO, all the antennas are on by default. So yes, you need
> to connect all of the antennas.
> 
> If you want to avoid this, you can override things. I _think_ it's:
> 
> hint.dev.ath.0.rx_antenna=0x5
> hint.dev.ath.0.tx_antenna=0x5
> 
> in /boot/loader.conf
> 
> If it's not that, it's hint.ath.0.xxx ..
> 
> Then connect antennas to the connectors marked "chain 0" and "chain 2".
> 
> The boot messages should then say that the RX and TX chainmasks are being set.
> 
> Otherwise - yes, connect all three!
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian
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