is my slow for this ? hostap related

[Mel Flynn]

Hi Nenhum,

On Monday 18 May 2009 01:08:09 Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:

> I have an atheros wlan card:
>
> ath0 at pci0:0:11:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x3a131186 chip=0x0013168c
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device     = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet

<snip>

> May 17 13:19:36 floyd kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
> May 17 13:20:07 floyd last message repeated 89 times
> May 17 13:22:08 floyd last message repeated 376 times
>
> I've read this:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/ath0:-stuck-beacon--resetting-(bmiss-count-4)-td22359
>155.html
>
> and I'm thinking my pc is slow for the job, as said.
>
> floyd# cat dmesg.today
> Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue May  5 23:08:28 BRT 2009
>     root at floyd.apartnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Floyd8
> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Read /usr/src/UPDATING about WITNESS options and which to delete from GENERIC 
kernel. I think once you turn those options off, your machine should be able 
to handle this, though I wouldn't run anything else on it. On a single 1.8Ghz 
686, I got these occasionally, when backups were done over gigabit and a movie 
was playing on it. I've since reconfigured the machine as dedicated media 
server and replaced the router with a headless 3Ghz 686, also running squid. 
This is overkill for my home network, though.
-- 
Mel