Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

[Marten Vijn]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 03:19 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded my access point (from 7.1 to 8.0) and can't make
> hostapd work (looks like wide-dhcp relay also has a problem with ath0):
> 

The ifconfig usage changed in 8.0

The Handbook is not correct:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html


see:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8784
and a small tutorial from my hand:
http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/ap may show usefull command and config
for you.

Here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
the Handbook is not correct...

I hope this helps,

cheers,
Marten

> [mayumi]:/root# hostapd -P /var/run/hostapd.pid -dd /etc/hostapd.conf
> Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
> Line 2: DEPRECATED: 'debug' configuration variable is not used anymore
> ctrl_interface_group=0 (from group name 'wheel')
> pcap_open_live:
> ifname='ath0'
> bsd driver initialization failed.
> ath0: Unable to setup interface.
> rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
> Exit 255
> 
> Output from dmesg:
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf4000000-0xf400ffff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5
> 
> The interface seems to exist, but seems it lost some of its
> functionality:
> [mayumi]:/root# ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:11:95:e5:70:df
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
> [mayumi]:/root# ifconfig ath0 list cap
> ifconfig: Don't know how to list cap for ath0
> 
> What's going on? The card worked pretty well with 7.1.
> 
> I tried to compile kernel just with "device ath_ar5212"
> but I'm only getting this:
> 
> ah.o(.text+0x212): In function `ath_hal_rfprobe':
> /usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__start_set_ah_rfs'
> ah.o(.text+0x21f):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__stop_set_ah_rfs'
> ah.o(.text+0x235):/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.c:142: undefined reference to `__stop_set_ah_rfs'
> 
-- 
Marten Vijn
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