Atheros AR9285

Vincent Hoffman vince at unsane.co.uk
Tue Aug 2 22:42:43 UTC 2011


On 02/08/2011 21:43, Brenden Blosser wrote:
> Where do I get -HEAD/How do I get -HEAD...I've never ran into this before or ever dealt with it before and when I do some research I cannot find anything on -HEAD.
> (Sorry if I'm not suppose to be asking this here or not.)

You may be able to just take the -HEAD (most current freebsd development
version) driver versions rather than the whole OS.
you can follow the instructions given by Adrian in the thread here
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23594


Vince

>
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> It probably received a bus failure of some sort.
>>
>> Please try -HEAD on it and see if it exhibits the same behaviour. I've
>> put a lot of AR9285 related fixes into -HEAD.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> adrian
>>
>> On 2 August 2011 07:34, Brenden Blosser <bsbmusic at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Hi. I've been trying to figure this out for the longest time now. My laptop has a Atheros AR9285 wireless card in it currently but when I try to connect to my wireless network or run "ifconfig wlan0 up scan" I see in return:
>>>
>>> ath0: hardware error; resetting
>>> ath0: 0x00000000 0x00002000 0x00000000, 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>>>
>>>
>>> But it shows it's status as "associated" with my wireless network but there is no network access in anyway (Can't even ping 192.168.1.1).
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm providing all informational outputs below:
>>>
>>> uname -a:
>>> FreeBSD oxygen.hsd1.md.comcast.net. 8.2-STABLE-201105 FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE-201105 #0: Tue May 17 05:18:48 UTC 2011 root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>>
>>> ifconfig wlan0:
>>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>        ether 4c:0f:6e:33:d8:93
>>>        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>>>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
>>>        status: associated
>>>        ssid NETWORK-HERE channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid c0:c1:c0:75:31:22
>>>        regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>>        deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan
>>>        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
>>>        wme burst roaming MANUAL
>>>
>>> pciconf -lv:
>>> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x3040103c 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
>>>
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