Odd error messages on wireless 11a connection

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Mon Oct 15 10:31:20 PDT 2007


> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:37:58 -0700
> From: Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I am at a major networking conference and my wireless, while working, is
> > logging lots of errors that I don't understand at all.
> >
> > +update_stats: bogus ndx0 7, max 7, mode 1
> >
> > Can anyone explain what these are? Do I need to be concerned?
> >
> > Atheros 5212 on FreeBSD current as of Oct. 5, i386, single processor
> > system. 
> > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xb4000000-0xb400ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci11
> > ath0: [ITHREAD]
> > ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> > ath0: Ethernet address: 00:14:a4:60:f2:e3
> > ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
> >   
> Update your ath driver.  You've found an ap that is beaconing a "pureg" 
> rate set and a recent change to the sample rate code broke that.

Thanks, Sam, but I'm running 1.177 which looks like the latest in
CVS. Do you have anything more recent that is not yet committed or is
there still a problem?
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