ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s

[Dan Langille]

Dan Langille wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> The ThinkPad X61s has arrived. It has 7.0-RELEASE installed on it.
> 
> ifconfig ath0 <== never returns to the command line:
> 
> from dmesg:
> 
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> 
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf7f00000-0xf7f0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx <== dunno why, but I masked those
> ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
> 
> 
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx
>         inet 0.0.0.16 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "" channel 165 (5825 Mhz 11a)
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 32767 bgscan
>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11a 4.5 roam:rate11a 12 
> burst
> 
> 
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD laptop.unixathome.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun 
> Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     
> root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Oh, and this:

ath0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x058a1014 chip=0x1014168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
     device     = 'AR5212 Atheros AR5212 802.11abg wireless'
     class      = network
     subclass   = ethernet


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