Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-08-04 Thread Troye Johnson
Can you show me your config files: rc.conf, /boot/loader.conf, wpa_supplicant.conf. I just want to see just to make sure I'm not doing it wrong. I'm using my card on a network that uses WPA-PSK. My card can scan for APs and associate with the chosen AP, but 'dhclient wlan0' will not get an IP

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-07-29 Thread Troye Johnson
well i just patched recompiled. Its evwn worse now. Now the var,log,messages log is even more flooded with the said messages. /Sent from Nokia 5800 On 7/29/10, Kurt Jaeger p...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! UPDATE: Oh, one more thing. Upon loading the ath driver a couple of days ago I got a kernel

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-07-28 Thread Troye Johnson
UPDATE: I contacted the driver author and he said that the message, kernel: ath0: bb hang detected, resetting, means that the hardware is hung, and the kernel attempted to reset the hardware device (in this case the wifi chip). So, basically there is a bug in the driver. On 8.1 stable release the

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-07-28 Thread Troye Johnson
UPDATE: Oh, one more thing. Upon loading the ath driver a couple of days ago I got a kernel panic and freeze. It panicked and then the system froze. The driver can scan for access points and associates to the AP, but then the kernl delivers the message in /var/log/message (kernel: ath0: bb hang

Re: Atheros AR9280 on 8.1-RC2 - unusable

2010-07-28 Thread Troye Johnson
Well good news. There is already a problem report out on this issue. R. Paulo has been paged and hopefully he will fix this. I'll send $10 to the first person who gets the ar9285 stable under FBSD. Comment in pr to claim prize. pr:kern/148112 ___

8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-07-27 Thread Troye Johnson
ar9285 driver gives exception message in /var/log/messages: kernel ath0 bb hang detected, resetting. I dont know what it means. The driver compiles good and I just got sources from cvs server branch RELENG_8_1. What is the meaning of this exception message?