ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s

[Dan Langille]

resending, this time to list instead of just Kevin. :)

Dan Langille wrote:
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> GENERIC.
> 
>> Clearly the ifconfig in the startup script works fine, so the issue is
>> why does the ifconfig you enter manually fail?
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> 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'?
> 
> sbwait.
> 
> Yes, it can be control c'd, no problem here.  ifconfig is not frozen. It
> just never comes back.
> 
>> There was really not much information in your message with which to
>> guess what might be happening. 
> 
> If I knew what to say, I would.  :)

FYI

$ while true ; do ifconfig ath0 | grep ssid; sleep 2; done
         ssid "" channel 8 (2447 Mhz 11g)
         ssid "" channel 100 (5500 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 140 (5700 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 36 (5180 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g)
         ssid "" channel 165 (5825 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 136 (5680 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 64 (5320 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g)
         ssid "" channel 161 (5805 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 132 (5660 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 64 (5320 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g)
         ssid "" channel 161 (5805 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 132 (5660 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 60 (5300 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 2 (2417 Mhz 11g)
         ssid "" channel 157 (5785 Mhz 11a)
         ssid "" channel 128 (5640 Mhz 11a)
^C

-- 
Dan Langille

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