ath0: device timeout

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Mon May 1 22:04:18 UTC 2006


At 12:43 PM 5/1/2006, Sam Leffler wrote:
>Q8 is the CAB queue; that's the queue were multicast frames buffered 
>for stations in power save mode are held.
>
>I thought you were reporting problems operating in station mode.

I was (I think):

# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 66.80.0.4 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 66.80.0.15
         inet6 fe80::280:48ff:fe3c:6c00%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
         ether 00:80:48:3c:6c:00
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b <hostap>
         status: associated
         ssid LIVE555 channel 3 bssid 00:80:48:3c:6c:00
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 38 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1
         bintval 100


>>#head -1 /etc/motd
>>FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Sun Apr  2 19:24:21 PDT 2006
>
>Sigh, why are you running old code?  This problem was fixed 4/19.

Arggh!  Mea Culpa - I apologize for wasting your time like this.  (I 
hate it when people do this with my own code :-)  The code was a 
little out-of-date because it's running on a slow CPU, and 
recompiling the kernel on it (cross-compiling is not an option in 
this case) takes a long time.  But I'll try rebuilding a newer 
version now, and see if it fixes the "ath0: device timeout" problems.

         Ross.




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