On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:27:32PM -0500, mabi wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an Atheros AR9271 Wifi USB 2.0 key on my OpenBSD 6.0 firewall in order
> to use as an access point. Unfortunately it happens nearly every day that the
> athn0 device times out, kernel log:
>
> athn0: device timeout
>
> and the only way to make the wireless work again is to reboot the firewall. I
> was told this would get better with 6.0 but I can't see any difference. Any
> ideas what's wrong? Below I post my hostname.athn0 and dmesg.
>
> Cheers,
> Mabi
These are known issues with athn on USB and hostap.
I have already spent a lot of time digging into this and never got anywhere.
Eventually I decided to document this in the man page which you apparently
missed:
[[[
ATHN(4) Device Drivers Manual ATHN(4)
NAME
athn Atheros IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device
[...]
BUGS
Host AP mode does not work with USB devices.
]]]
Sorry. Anybody, please let me know if you find a way to fix it.
