I think you're going to be .. unhappy with what Intel's firmware is like as an AP.
I still have to chase down why the AR9287 stalls and do a full chip reset when it goes RX deaf. I'm just chasing down other things at the moment. -a On 3 October 2014 06:33, O. Hartmann <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Am Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:15:54 +0200 > Erik Trulsson <erik.trulsson.1...@student.uu.se> schrieb: > >> Quoting "O. Hartmann" <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>: >> >> > Since a couple of days I get this weird console-and-log-spamming message: >> > >> > ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4) >> > >> > The machine in question is running the most recent CURRENT right now: >> > >> > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r272471: Fri Oct 3 13:03:58 CEST 2014 amd64 >> > >> > and the box acts as a gateway with WiFi access point via hostapd and >> > this WiFi hardware: >> > >> > [...] >> > ath0: <Atheros 9287> mem 0xf7e00000-0xf7e0ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 >> > ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes >> > ath0: [HT] enabling short-GI in 20MHz mode >> > ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled >> > ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled >> > ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams >> > [...] >> > ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0 >> > >> > What is this and how can I get rid of it? >> >> It means that you have run into a well-known and long lasting hardware >> bug in Atheros Wifi chipsets, where they sometimes get stuck and stops >> sending out beacons. >> You get that message when the device driver detects that this has >> happened and resets the chip to get things going again. >> >> There is, AFAIK, no way of making sure the problem cannot happen, but >> you might be able to reduce the frequency of it happening by reducing >> the amount of interference you receive from other wireless devices. > > Ah, I understand, so nothing to worry about. The WiFi NIC is a cheap TP Link > facility. > Hopefully, FreeBSD will have support for Intel's Dual Band 7260-chipset this > decade, so > the problem will be gone anyway (except Intel put also nice hardware bugs > into their > silica ...). > > > oh _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
