hiya,

you should try -head.

But there's some long standing issues hiding around in the AR9227 code
somewhere where they occasionally go deaf and I never figured out
why... :(


-a


On 26 October 2015 at 13:27, Alban Hertroys <[email protected]> wrote:
> At random times my devices suddenly fail to connect to Wifi on my ath0 
> device. Issueing /etc/rc.d/hostapd restart usually resolves the issue, but at 
> some point that also hung.
>
> Shutting down to single user mode in the hung state only partially succeeded, 
> in the sense that ifconfig, hostapd and a few other network-related processes 
> kept "running" - I assume the hangup of hostapd was caused by a hung process 
> somewhere in that tree.
>
> The system is:
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD solfertje 10.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-PRERELEASE #19 r286718: Thu 
> Aug 13 10:00:32 CEST 2015     dalroi@solfertje:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANTELOPE  
> amd64
>
> It's quite possible that I've misconfigured something, so here's the relevant 
> lines of my configs…
>
> rc.conf:
>
> # Outside interface
> ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_fxp0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
>
> # Wireless
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
>
> create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
>
> ifconfig_wlan0="mode ng channel 9:ht/40"
> ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
>
> # Bridged interfaces (see example at man 4 bridge)
> cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
> ifconfig_bridge0="addm em0 stp em0 addm wlan0 stp wlan0 up"
> ifconfig_bridge0_alias0="inet 10.236.150.1/24"
> ifconfig_bridge0_ipv6_alias0="inet6 fe80::6efd:b9ff:fe68:db36%bridge0"
>
> # Internal wired ethernet (should that be above the bridge declaration?)
> ifconfig_em0="up"
> ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
>
> hostapd_enable="YES"
>
> #=============
>
> hostapd.conf:
>
> interface=wlan0
> driver=bsd
> debug=1
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
> ssid=foo
> country_code=NL
> ieee80211d=1
> hw_mode=g
> wpa=2
> wpa_passphrase=nonononono
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> wpa_pairwise=CCMP
>
>
> The ath0 device is:
> pciconf -lv ath0
> ath0@pci0:5:6:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x0300168c chip=0x002d168c 
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device     = 'AR9227 Wireless Network Adapter'
>     class      = network
>
> In case it's relevant: All connected devices get their IPv4 addresses through 
> DHCP from this machine, the machine itself gets it's IPv4 external address 
> from my upstream provider, the internal addresses are hardwired per 
> interface. DHCP is configured to use hostnames (instead of IP's) that get 
> looked up in Bind9 on the same machine.
>
>
> Google did find some people on the internet with apparently the same problem, 
> but nobody seems to have found (or posted) a resolution.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? If not, is this a known issue? What's the next 
> step?
>
> Alban Hertroys
> --
> If you can't see the forest for the trees,
> cut the trees and you'll find there is no forest.
>
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