Wierd issues with wifi in hostap mode in FreeBSD 11

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 10:05:57 +0200, Stefan Lambrev <cheffo at freebsd-bg.org>  
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>
> I've just installed FreeBSD 11 on Soekris net5501 with the following wifi
> card:
>
>
> root at soekris:~ # dmesg |grep ath0
> ath0: <Atheros 5413> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 15 at device 17.0 on  
> pci0
> ath0: AR5413 mac 10.5 RF5413 phy 6.1
> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0063
>
> ath0 at pci0:0:17:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x110719b6 chip=0x001b168c
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
>     device     = 'AR5413/AR5414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5006X(S)
> 802.11abg]'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
>
> But wat is very strange for me is that I do not see ath0 device on  
> ifconfig:
>
>
> root at soekris:~ # ifconfig ath0
> ifconfig: interface ath0 does not exist
>
> At the same time if I crate wlan0 to list caps it works:
>
> root at soekris:~ # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
> root at soekris:~ # ifconfig wlan0 list caps
> drivercaps=4f8defc1<STA,FF,TURBOP,IBSS,PMGT,HOSTAP,AHDEMO,TXPMGT,SHSLOT,SHPREAMB
>
>        LE,MONITOR,MBSS,WPA1,WPA2,BURST,WME,WDS,TXFRAG>
> cryptocaps=1f<WEP,TKIP,AES,AES_CCM,TKIPMIC>
> root at soekris:~ #
>
>
> The issues is that when I try to start wlan0 in hostap mode - FreeBSD
> freezes, unfortunatelly I cannot find my serial port cable atm and cannot
> see what exactly is displayed on the console but it's a hard freeze and  
> the
> device do not reboot after it e.g. power cycle is required.
>
>
> When configured from rc.conf it boots and do not freeze but still says
> status: no carrier and hostapd complains that the device is not  
> configured.
>
> snippet from rc.conf:
>
> cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> create_args_wlan0="wlanmod hostap"
> ifconfig_wlan0="ssid cheffo country bg up"


Hi,

I don't know how people should know, but after some mails in the past  
(when 11 was still CURRENT) I learned that the 'country' statement is  
moved to create_args_wlan0 too. I don't know about ssid.

Oh!!! Cheer! The man page of ifconfig says 'The following parameters are  
specific to cloning IEEE 802.11 wireless interfaces with the create  
request:' and than has a very long list of parameters.

Cheers,
Ronald.


> ifconfig_bridge0="addm vr0 addm vr1 addm vr2 addm vr3 addm wlan0 up"
> ifconfig_bridge0_alias0="inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> I'm still with GENERIC kernel and there are no changes or custom cpu
> optimizations done so far:
>
> root at soekris:~ # uname -a
> FreeBSD soekris.ziops-security.org 11.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 11.0-BETA3 #0
> r303469: Fri Jul 29 04:28:58 UTC 2016
> root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  i386
>
> root at soekris:~ # cat /boot/loader.conf
> dcons_load="YES"
> dcons_crom="YES"
> crypto_load="YES"
> cryptodev_load="YES"
> glxsb_load="YES"
> if_bridge_load="YES"
> wlan_xauth_load="YES"
>
>
> root at soekris:~ # kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   19 0xc0400000 1a9313c  kernel
>  2    1 0xc1e95000 80d4     geom_label.ko
>  3    1 0xc1e9e000 bc80     if_bridge.ko
>  4    2 0xc1eaa000 6ce0     bridgestp.ko
>  5    1 0xc1eb1000 3a70     dcons.ko
>  6    1 0xc1eb5000 5978     cryptodev.ko
>  7    1 0xc1ebb000 548c     glxsb.ko
>  8    1 0xc1ec1000 1d6c     wlan_xauth.ko
>
>
> I have to mention that I've tried with 11-BETA2 first and there were the
> same behaviour, and also I have used this soekris setup for few years  
> with
> FreeBSD 7 and 8 for a home wifi router so I do know that the hardware is
> supported and OK, as it worked rock solid just before reinstalling it  
> with
> FreeBSD 11.
>
> Any advice on how to get wifi working again?
>
> Thanks!
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