[ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Please just do it manually for now.

# ifconfig wlan0
# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &
# dhclient wlan0

.. see what happens.



-adrian



On 19 August 2013 06:30, Tj Hariharan <tj at archlinux.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:15:32AM +0530, Tj Hariharan wrote:
> > O never mind, it still happens, though obviously more intermittently,
> > since I didn't notice anything odd for almost an entire day. A few more
> > things this time though:
> >
> > a. It IS intermittent, there seems to be very little pattern to this,
> > except that it seems to be more likely to happen when/if I am using the
> > internet more and actively (e.g. youtube etc rather than just let a few
> > small internet using things run).
> >
> > b. There seems to be an extra line in the error logs:
> >
> >       "Aug 19 10:53:47 tahoe dhclient[79063]: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) on
> >               wlan0: Operation not permitted"
>
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 09:02:41AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > 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
> > > >
> >
>
>
> Okay it's gotten MUCH worse now. netif can no longer be stopped without
> a reboot when "wlan0" craps out. (As I mentioned a restart usually fixes
> things). While trying to stop netif attempts to destroy the wlan0
> interface, which fails - which, as it turns out is where the "ioctl:
> operation not permitted error" error comes from I think.
> --
> Tj Hariharan
> Email: Tj at archlinux.us
>