ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:10:39 -0400
> From: Dan Langille <dan at langille.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> 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

Same card works fine for me and several others.

Are you running GENERIC or is it your own?

Clearly the ifconfig in the startup script works fine, so the issue is
why does the ifconfig you enter manually fail?

What state is the process in while it's hung? (top(1) or CTRL-T will
provide this.) Can it be interrupted by a signal (CTRL-C), kill, or 'kill
-9'?

There was really not much information in your message with which to
guess what might be happening. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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