ath and problems with wlan scanning

[Paul Dokas]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:58:23 -0700 Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> This is an issue with iwi not ath.  iwi does scanning in firmware so it
> is totally different.  If you have a scanning issue please post your
> problem under a different subject.

Sure thing.  Here's a quick summary of the problem that I'm seeing.

  + I've got one of these atheros based A/B/G cards:
      http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=130

    It works great in a co-workers laptop running 6.1

  + Setting up ath0 to config via DHCP results in ath0 never getting an
    IP address.  Furthermore, while scanning, it appears to associate
    for only a brief moment and then moves on to other channels.

  + Manually doing `ifconfig ath0 up` results in it associating just fine.

I've tried booting with ACPI disabled and obtained the same results.

The attached files are the output from dmesg and annotated snippets from the console
logs after turning on wlan debugging with this:  `sysctl net.wlan.0.debug=0x00200000`
I've marked the places in the logs where I typed various commands.

I'd be happy to gather more data if that would help.

Paul
-- 
Paul Dokas                                     dokas at oitsec.umn.edu
======================================================================
Don Juan Matus:  "an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla."
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: dmesg.out
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 7891 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/attachments/20060609/a7c41ff7/dmesg.obj
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ath0
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 14212 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/attachments/20060609/a7c41ff7/ath0.obj