ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s

[Dan Langille]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Dan Langille wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
>> 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
>
> FWIW, simliar problem after "upgrading" to:
>
> FreeBSD laptop.unixathome.org 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat  
> Mar 22 15:41:15 EDT 2008     dan at laptop.example.org:/usr/obj/usr/ 
> src/sys/X61S  amd64


FWIW, running the same command, same laptop, at home, gives me a list  
of APs.  I'll repeat the test at work on Monday.

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