Hello,
I'm coming from Linux and I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. I have installed a new 8.1 RELEASE on an ASUS UL30A notebook, everything looks fine except the AR9285 WiFi nic - I cannot associate it to my AP.
Below I put some logs and commands output:
The strange fact is when I scan for new APs, I see only the Liberty network (not mine), and the rest of WiFi networks (around 10) are missing in the output.
Yes, I've been googling and reading forums, but all the info I found on the web are useless for my case.
In my Linux box and Window$ the WiFi nic is working fine, even if my AP is located a little bit far away from my station.
Many thanks.
I'm coming from Linux and I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. I have installed a new 8.1 RELEASE on an ASUS UL30A notebook, everything looks fine except the AR9285 WiFi nic - I cannot associate it to my AP.
Below I put some logs and commands output:
Code:
[B]# dmesg |grep ath[/B]
ath0: <Atheros 9285> mem 0xfeaf0000-0xfeafffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR9285 mac 192.2 RF5133 phy 14.0
[B]#cat /boot/loader.con[/B]
ath_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
if_vlan_load="YES"
[B]# cat /etc/rc.conf[/B]
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Jan 21 17:50:16 2011
# Created: Fri Jan 21 17:50:16 2011
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
font8x14="NO"
font8x16="NO"
font8x8="NO"
inetd_enable="NO"
keymap="it.iso"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
sshd_enable="YES"
vaps_ath0="wlan0"
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"
[B]# ifconfig -a[/B]
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 1c:4b:d6:85:f9:9f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
status: associated
alc0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=c3198<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
ether 48:5b:39:6b:a3:d8
media: Ethernet autoselect
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 1c:4b:d6:85:f9:9f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 4 (2427 MHz 11g)
regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 20 bmiss 7
scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst bintval 0
[B]# pciconf -lv[/B]
ath0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
device = 'Atheros [I]AR9285[/I] Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g/n Controller (AR928x)'
class = network
[B]# kldstat -v | grep wla[/B]
342 wlan
341 wlan_wep
340 wlan_tkip
339 wlan_ccmp
338 wlan_amrr
343 wlan_sta
[B]# kldstat -v | grep ath[/B]
93 pci/ath
277 uhub/uath
[B]# uname -a[/B]
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 ro
ot@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[B]# ifconfig wlan0 list scan[/B]
SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
Liberty 00:4f:67:03:64:c0 6 54M -77:-96 100 EPS RSN
[B]# ifconfig wlan0 ap 00:1f:1f:15:a6:ab ssid MY_SSID wepmo
de on wepkey 0x_MY_HEX_KEY[/B]
The strange fact is when I scan for new APs, I see only the Liberty network (not mine), and the rest of WiFi networks (around 10) are missing in the output.
Yes, I've been googling and reading forums, but all the info I found on the web are useless for my case.
In my Linux box and Window$ the WiFi nic is working fine, even if my AP is located a little bit far away from my station.
Many thanks.