[ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

[Adrian Chadd]

good to know!




-adrian


On 18 August 2013 05:19, Tj Hariharan <tj at archlinux.us> wrote:

> Ok so, at the time I was using r254246. Just this afternoon, I realised
> there were quite a few commits after that. I am now on r254444 and
> everything seems to be working fine, i.e. no more wlan0 dying randomly.
> I have no idea what is causing this, though. (the r254246 was from
> installing from a download of 9.2 dvd).
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:49:49PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm not sure what could've caused this! Not much has changed in the
> > wireless stack and ath driver between 9.1 and 9.2. Would you be able to
> > work through different svn versions of stable/9 between 9.1 and 9.2 to
> > narrow down when things broke?
> >
> > It may be something other than the wifi driver/stack.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > -adrian
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17 August 2013 05:12, Tj <tj at archlinux.us> wrote:
> >
> > > (Sorry emailed from wrong address, re emailing)
> > >
> > > Hi, I just upgraded to 9.2-PRERELEASE from 9.1-RELEASE, I have not had
> this
> > > problem before with any version of freebsd however. I have an ATHEROS
> card
> > > (AR928X according to pciconf), things go fine except every few
> > > minutes/hours (randomly) I get the following
> > > http://bpaste.net/show/123755/ type
> > > of error, and  the network is no longer connected, however, beyond the
> fact
> > > that I can't even reach my router there's no obvious other sign, I.e
> > > ifconfig still shows a valid output with ip address etc as if it were
> still
> > > connected. Restarting the netif service fixes it, until it happens
> again -
> > > which it does in a short while (though sometimes I have to restart
> netif
> > > twice).
> > >
> > > As I said, this happened just as I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2. Anyone
> have
> > > any idea what's causing this?
> > >
> > > -Tj Hariharan
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> --
> Tejas (Tj) Hariharan
> Email: tj at archlinux.us
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