On 12/8/09, Pete Carah <p...@altadena.net> wrote: > With a recent build of 8-stable (last week and again yesterday) the ath > 9280 driver doesn't work; wpa_supplicant says "scanning" forever, and if > one observes ifconfig it is scanning some of the 11a frequencies and no > 11g ones. It also doesn't pick up a legit 11a AP at home, nor does it see > *any* AP at work (there are about 12 visible from where I sit). The > card works in both fedora and windoze (though fedora has a very > annoying 7 second pause every minute or so (irregular intervals). > > I can stop wpa_supplicant and manually up it and give ifconfig scan; > this hangs forever and also only appears to be listing 11a freqs when you > look with ifconfig from another window. > > It had worked before... The only change that shows up in the ath driver > is "Add WorldB SKU" to ah_regdomain.c on the 25th. My previous > build was somewhere around the 17th so that must have broken it. A > cursory svn diff doesn't look bad to me but I only looked at the syntax. > And none of the net80211 files have changed since the 7th in my source tree. > > A second problem that also crept up in the most recent update Please separate problems (do not post about separate issues in same message). > (yesterday) one of 3 instances of acpi_ec0 causes a panic. If I specify > boot_verbose="YES" the panic goes away!! Since this is a laptop with no > serial port (any modern laptop :-( I can't capture the panic > directly, only copy it with a camera (aren't digital cameras > wonderful). Looking at the last message printed in verbose, I'm guessing an > access to a freed area; why verbose "fix"es it I don't know (maybe > printing reallocates?) > > This laptop has always given a string of error messages regarding its > ec0. (Acer 4730; dual-core 2gig intel cpu, intel chipset, running as amd64) > (I run 32-bit windoze but 64 bsd and linux.)
Try # ifconfig wlan0 list scan and there is wlandebug(8) and athdebug (in tools if you have source) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
