ath and problems with wlan scanning

Paul Dokas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization OIT Security and Assurance, University of Minnesota
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:58:23 -0700 Sam Leffler <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is an issue with iwi not ath.  iwi does scanning in firmware so it
> is totally different.  If you have a scanning issue please post your
> problem under a different subject.

Sure thing.  Here's a quick summary of the problem that I'm seeing.

  + I've got one of these atheros based A/B/G cards:
      http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=130

    It works great in a co-workers laptop running 6.1

  + Setting up ath0 to config via DHCP results in ath0 never getting an
    IP address.  Furthermore, while scanning, it appears to associate
    for only a brief moment and then moves on to other channels.

  + Manually doing `ifconfig ath0 up` results in it associating just fine.

I've tried booting with ACPI disabled and obtained the same results.

The attached files are the output from dmesg and annotated snippets from the console
logs after turning on wlan debugging with this:  `sysctl net.wlan.0.debug=0x00200000`
I've marked the places in the logs where I typed various commands.

I'd be happy to gather more data if that would help.

Paul
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Paul Dokas                                     dokas at oitsec.umn.edu
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