Atheros card

[Monah baki]

Hi all,

I'm running freebsd 6.0 on a soekris box. I'm trying to configure it as 
a access point.

%dmesg | grep ath0
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 11 at device 14.0 on 
pci0
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3

If I configure ath0 in 11b mode, it works fine. However if I configure 
it in 11g mode or 11a mode, I no longer can connect to it, and my ssid 
disappears from my macs available access points option.

My client is a mac os x 10.4.

Here's the ifconfig output for autoselect, 11g and 11a which fails:

%ifconfig ath0 media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt hostap
%ifconfig -v ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.2.187 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
         inet6 fe80::202:6fff:fe20:8f4a%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
         ether 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap> 
(autoselect <hostap>)
         status: associated
         ssid apname channel 36 (5180) bssid 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF
         powersavesleep 100 txpowmax 28 txpower 60 rtsthreshold 2346
         fragthreshold 2346 -pureg protmode CTS -wme ssid SHOW apbridge
         dtimperiod 1 bintval 100


%ifconfig ath0 mode 11g
%ifconfig -v ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.2.187 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
         inet6 fe80::202:6fff:fe20:8f4a%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
         ether 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g 
<hostap>
         status: associated
         ssid apname channel 1 (2412) bssid 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF
         powersavesleep 100 txpowmax 36 txpower 60 rtsthreshold 2346
         fragthreshold 2346 -pureg protmode CTS -wme ssid SHOW apbridge
         dtimperiod 1 bintval 100


%ifconfig ath0 mode 11a
%ifconfig -v ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.2.187 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
         inet6 fe80::202:6fff:fe20:8f4a%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
         ether 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a 
<hostap>
         status: associated
         ssid apname channel 36 (5180) bssid 00:02:6f:20:8f:4a
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF
         powersavesleep 100 txpowmax 28 txpower 60 rtsthreshold 2346
         fragthreshold 2346 -pureg protmode CTS -wme ssid SHOW apbridge
         dtimperiod 1 bintval 100