mediaopt turbo wedges ath0

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Tue Jan 25 09:21:32 PST 2005


Emil Mikulic wrote:
> I have a Netgear WG311T (ath driver) and trying to get it into "turbo"
> mode wedges the card.  This is consistently reproducible on my test
> machine.
> 
> # kldload if_ath
> ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe3800000-0xe380ffff irq 7 at device 9.0 on pci0
> ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:09:5b:c8:19:69
> ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 radio 1.7
> # ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:09:5b:c8:19:69
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid ""
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100
> # ifconfig ath0 mode 11g mediaopt turbo
> # ifconfig ath0 up
> ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3
> #
> 
> The card is then unusable until I reboot.  Unloading and reloading the
> module doesn't bring it back to life.
> 
> I'm running 6-CURRENT as of right after sam@'s commit of:
> 
>   src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_node.c 1.42
>   src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_output.c  1.18
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?  If this isn't a known problem, is there
> anything I can do to provide more information as to what's going wrong?

I just noticed you are running turbo in 11g; this isn't really supported 
yet; it's waiting on some SuperG features that I haven't gotten to yet. 
  If you're not on channel 6 you're going to be in trouble as turbo mode 
uses channel bonding which'll spread outside the available spectrum in 
2.4G (and might be the reason your card wedges).

	Sam


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