Hi configuring an atheros card for hostap in releng_6 seems to be unusable at all at this time. The card is running fine and can be configured as wished but after some time it stops working ifconfig ath0 list stat do not show the client anymore sometimes I see ath0 device timeout in messages using 11g this problem appears after some minutes or sometimes after booting the machine it do not communicate, in 11b it stays mostly 20-40 minutes working, due to this problems I still had no time to look at 11a it does not matter what additional configs I set on the card the radio simply disappears, of course I tried another card to check, no change, I used the newest DLink AG650, AG520 and AG530 running the whole ifconfig command again after ifconfig ath0 down brings it back up for another similar period changing the ath for a wi prism card using the exactly same configuration everything works fine and stable Jo?o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
JoaoBR wrote:> Hi > configuring an atheros card for hostap in releng_6 seems to be unusable at all > at this time.RELENG_6 is the whole branch. What date has your kernel been built?> The card is running fine and can be configured as wished but after some time > it stops workingI experience this when using 11g mode with hostap. The maximal performance I've seen was about 2,5MB/s transfering a file. But scp mostly gives up transfering large file and the log says something about wrong MAC address. There are also large delays sometimes and the average performance is a lot worse than in 11b mode. I'm using 11b at the moment and there are no problems. The speed I get is about 850kB/s. This is enough for my notebook.> using 11g this problem appears after some minutes or sometimes after booting > the machine it do not communicate, in 11b it stays mostly 20-40 minutes > working, due to this problems I still had no time to look at 11aAre you sure you don't have problems with DHCP or something like that, when using 11b?> running the whole ifconfig command again after ifconfig ath0 down brings it > back up for another similar periodOn older kernels I had to do this, too. But now wireless support seems to be stable.> changing the ath for a wi prism card using the exactly same configuration > everything works fine and stableYou're lucky. My wi(4) never worked properly (around 5.0R) and I gave it back. I realized that FreeBSD hostap support wasn't stable at that time. Martin