ath device appears broken
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Thu Jun 14 16:13:52 UTC 2007
Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:05:40PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> I can't find anything relevent at the moment. The 20070610 entry
>>> states:
>>> Users must also, for the moment, kldload the wlan_scan_sta and/or
>>> wlan_scan_ap modules if they use modules for wireless support.
>>>
>>> I don't use modules nor compile them. Perhaps, a sentence is
>>> missing that should direct people that don't use module to update
>>> their kernel config file?
>> Thanks, I'll add more explanation. Short answer is the scanning support
>> is now broken out into separate modules that you must either load or
>> specify in your kernel config file. wlan_scan_sta for sta mode
>> operation. wlan_sta_ap for ap mode operation. This is comparable to
>> how ciphers are split out into modules.
>
> OK. I've added all the wlan_* devices to my config
> and the kernel boots and my script now runs.
>
> Thanks for responding so quickly.
>
> PS: I seem to get a periodic "ath0: device timeout" message
> on the console. I doesn't seem to cause any problems (e.g.,
> long pauses).
>
No idea. I suspect there's a race in the tx done processing that makes
the driver think there is a timeout when one is not present.
Sam
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