Encountered the same errors with AR9271 dongle (athn driver) as in previous posts:
athn0: firmware command 0x17 timed out athn0: firmware command 0x18 timed out athn0 device timeout Kernel determined it as: athn0 at uhub1 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATHEROS USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/1.08 addr 4 athn0: AR9271 rev 1 (1T1R), ROM rev 13, address c4:e9:84:xx:xx:xx Thank you for attention to a problem. Denis On 7/25/2016 12:57 PM, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a USB Wifi card on my OpenBSD 5.8 firewall as AP and from time to > time there are timeouts which prevents any access to it anymore until I > either plug out and in the Wifi dongle again or reboot. > > Here is the hardware details of that Wifi USB dongle: > > > athn0 at uhub1 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATHEROS USB2.0 WLAN" rev > 2.00/1.08 addr 4 > athn0: AR9271 rev 1 (1T1R), ROM rev 13, address c4:e9:84:xx:xx:xx > > > There error is the following (many of these messages are repeated): > > > athn0: device timeout > > > My /etc/hostname.athn0 is the following: > > inet 172.16.20.1 255.255.255.0 > media autoselect > mediaopt hostap > mode 11b > chan 6 > nwid <EDITED> > wpakey <EDITED> > > So I was wondering what is going on here... Is my Wifi USB dongle crap? or am > I maybe doing something wrong? > > Let me know if I should provide any other infos... > > > Regards > ML >
