More if_ath churn coming your way!

Vinícius Zavam egypcio at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 8 15:10:43 UTC 2011


2011/3/8 Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>:
>
>
> 2011/3/8 Vinícius Zavam <egypcio at googlemail.com>
>>
>>
>> it's "true".
>> works for me, but i need to put my netbook less than 1meter from my
>> access point, when using freebsd ;(
>>
>> somewhere else i've tryed to send icmp echo requests to my gw got
>> nothing but "bb hang detected".
>> my `ifconfig wlan0 list scan` returns just one wireless network... mine.
>>
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> ath0: <Atheros 9285> mem 0xfbff0000-0xfbffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on
>> pci2
>> ath0: AR9285 mac 192.2 RF5133 phy 14.0
>>
>> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>    device     = 'Atheros AR9285 Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
>> Controller (AR928x)'
>>    class      = network
>>
>> FreeBSD minimoose 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3: Mon Mar  7
>> 14:16:58 BRT 2011     root at minimoose:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINIMOOSE
>> i386
>
> So that's a tree compiled from a couple hours ago?

it was.

>> am i doing anything wrong as hell?
>
> Nope. I think it's very likely that the AR9285 support needs some more
> attention.
> Are you able to take an EEPROM dump (using ath_prom_dump -i ath0 -d
> ar9285.dump) and email it to me?

i've done it before. did not receive my mail?
hmm... maybe it's because i attached and carbon copied current@ and mobile at .

will mail it to you ASAP.

> Are you able to crack open the laptop and write down the exact details of
> the chip? (ie part number, manufacturer, etc?) Different vendors do
> different things to the same chipset.
> Thanks,
>
> Adrian

not now. sorry.... (i do will think about it);
it still in the warranty period.


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