Commands for AR5212 cause system to hang using 8.2-STABLE

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

You're not the first person to reply with this problem. I
unfortunately have no way (yet) to reproduce these kinds of issues at
home as all my atheros hardware works fine on freebsd-8 and freebsd-9
on all the laptop/PC/MIPS hardware I have.

Can you please try 8.0-RELEASE and see if it works for you? I'd like
to see where things broke along the FreeBSD-7 -> FreeBSD-8.2 path.



Adrian

On 31 August 2011 05:20, Martes G Wigglesworth
<mailinglistmember at mgwigglesworth.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings all.
>
> I am attempting to get a newer 8.2-based router up and running, and during
> my development process, I discovered that the wireless AR5212 card was not
> blinking, as it did when installed on the current router box.  Upon further
> reading, into the differences between FBSD7 and FBSD8 wireless setup, I
> attempted to get it runing with no luck.
>
> On the command line, the following causes the running terminal to hault, or
> at least to appear to hault, and become non-reactive to keyboard input:
>
> <code> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 </code>
>
>
> Here is the output from ifconfig ath0
>
> <code>
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>        ether 00:1b:2f:37:02:46
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>        status: no carrier
> </code>
>
> Here is the output from rc.conf setting which are relivant:
> <code>
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
> ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid "wrouter0"
> mode 54g channel 1"
> </code>
>
> Here is my loader.conf file output:
> <code>
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> lan_xauth_load="YES"
> wlan_acl_load="YES"
> if_lagg_load="YES"
> if_ath_load="YES"
> accf_http_load="YES"
> </code>
>
> When I put the rc.conf variables in place, it hung the boot process, just
> after initialization of the gateway port. (fxp0)
>
> What should I look for, in attempting to figure this out?
>
> I have also noticed that while the FBSD-8 Handbook provides references to
> utilizing <code> /etc/netif start </code> this file does not exist on this
> 8-Stable install.
>
> I installed and upgraded from source, from 8.1-PRERELEASE, last spring or
> fall, and have just now started to really get this setup going, hence the
> older version.
>
> The system is an old PIII-866Mhz server board, with three quad-port
> interfaces and a fourth, which is wireless. (while I wait for the Atom D525
> system to get here.)
>
> There is no "output" to list, given that the system hangs each time, without
> any debug, or kernel panic indicators.  In fact the system only hangs on the
> incident user space, because you can still login and utilize ssh sessions,
> as well as anything else that is running.
>
> I use the terms "system hang" because acpi requests from the power switch
> are ignored, due to the system not being "ready" so I just have to hard
> reset.
>
> Any input would be most appreciated.
>
> --
>
> --
> Respectfully,
>
>
> Martes G Wigglesworth
> M. G. Wigglesworth Holdings, LLC
> www.mgwigglesworth.net
>
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