ath on 8-RELEASE

pacija · Nov 27, 2009

Hi everyone,

this morning i reinstalled my eee1000HD with 8-RELEASE just to find out that my wireless NIC does not work anymore

It shows up in dmesg:

Code:

ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xfbef0000-0xfbefffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci1
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0

but:

Code:

shakti# ifconfig ath0 up scan
ifconfig: unable to get scan results

Any tips?

Thanx in advance...

Nightweaver · Nov 27, 2009

Create a wlan device first:

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
ifconfig wlan0 list scan

I had the same issue as you.

pacija · Nov 27, 2009

hvala za tip, kolega

))

thx4tip m8 (in serbian)

playahater · Nov 30, 2009

anyone tried combination with atheros,hostap and master mode on 8-RELEASE ?
i`m planning to set up a home router with atheros on bsd ..

Cheers ..

playahater · Nov 30, 2009

nevermind ..

.. everything works just fine ..

..

cheers ..

pacija · Dec 2, 2009

So, is there some more elegant way to automatically create wlan0 interface than with cron @reboot? rc.conf or something?

Nightweaver · Dec 2, 2009

Add

Code:

wlans_ath0="wlan0"

to rc.conf.

pacija · Dec 2, 2009

thanx again

it would be great if changes are included in handbook...

Nylex · Dec 6, 2009

pacija said:
thanx again

it would be great if changes are included in handbook...

File a bug report. This thread has also helped me, though I'm using the malo driver rather than ath.

Thanks!