Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

[Derek Kulinski]

Hello Boris,

I checked the handbook, UPDATING, and nothing mentioned this thing,
why? I would think I'm not the only one with this problem, or am I?

Anyway it seems to work, I'm getting:
Starting hostapd.
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Fetching hardware channel/rate support not supported.
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 00:11:95:e5:70:df and ssid 'mayumi-ap'

Is it something I should worry about?
Also how to create wlan device by hand? "ifconfig ath0 wlandev wlan0"
doesn't seem to work.

What initially was worrying me was this:
>> 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

I thought that ath0 was using a different driver than it supposed to.

There's one more question, though not related to this problem.
I have an android phone, and it doesn't seem to work with my FreeBSD
AP, while it works on others. After sniffing the traffic, it looks
like it is a power management issue:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/87903#87903

Someone traced the problem to WME/WMM in his case. I don't know if
that's the case for me yet, I tried to disable/enable wme on the AP
but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is it possible that I might fix it
by enabling some option?

Anyway, thanks for everyone who helped me fix the initial issue.

Derek


Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 4:28:49 AM, you wrote:

> Multi-BSS support in 8.0 means that you first need to create a wlan 
> pseudo-device, and run hostapd with that. The rc.conf lines look like this:

> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
> ifconfig_wlan0="ssid networkname media autoselect up"

> -Boris

> 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):
>>
>> [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'
>>
>>   



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