Hello,
I can't get a Ralink- or Atheros- MiniPCI Card to work in a Soekirs 5501
or ALIX System.
Setup is as follow (OpenBSD host.example.net 4.9 GENERIC#671 i386)
WLAN CARD (ral or ath) -> bridge0 -> vlan6
The two mentioned card show different behavior.
Atheros card (crashes system)
Atheros card dmesg output:
ath0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Atheros AR5413" rev 0x01: irq 9
ath0: AR5413 10.5 phy 6.1 rf 6.3, FCC2A*, address 00:80:48:64:d3:fb
entering the following command (nwid replaced with placeholder):
ifconfig ath0 media autoselect mediaopt hostap mode 11g chan 1 nwid
<name> wpa wpakey <0x1...>
makes OpenBSD unresponsive to all commands on ssh or serial command line.
Ralink card
(system does not crash but is not working either)
Ralink card dmesg output (ssid replaced with placeholder):
ral0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 15,
address 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT5225
ral0: creating ibss
ral0: synchronized with 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c ssid <name> channel 1 start
1Mb short preamble short slot time
ral0: creating ibss
ral0: synchronized with 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c ssid <name> channel 1 start
1Mb short preamble short slot time
ral0: creating ibss
ral0: synchronized with 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c ssid <name> channel 1 start
1Mb short preamble short slot time
ral0: creating ibss
ral0: synchronized with 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c ssid <name> channel 1 start
1Mb short preamble short slot time
ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8947<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
lladdr 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap
status: active
ieee80211: nwid stay-off chan 1 bssid 00:12:0e:61:4e:3c wpakey
<replaced> wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp
wpagroupcipher tkip 100dBm
inet6 fe80::212:eff:fe61:4e3c%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
With tcpdump I see no traffic on the ral0 interface. Any Client that
tries connecting is asking for the
wpakey over and over again. But no traffic shows on the ral0 interface.
Searching for the problem I found the following Mail mentioning what
might be the problem
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/23877
So I tried the snapshot Kernel from June 10 but that did not solve my
Problem (I did not compile the Kernel just downloaded it)
My question is is anyone else experience the same problem. Or did I miss
something (e.g. does one of the card not work
with OpenBSD 4.9 in Host AP mode anymore. At least the ral interface
worked fine in OpenBSD 4.7 in hostap mode)
If more Information is needed let me.
Thanks in advance
Mario Kothe
