Re: ATH AR5212 hangs machine just after boot

[Sevan / Venture37 <venture37_(_at_)_hotmail_(_dot_)_com>]

Rod.. Whitworth wrote:

> Well my dmesg lines don't look like either set of yours BUT disabling
> 802.11a didn't fix it but disabling 802.11g  as well leaves me with a
> working 11b. After I paid for a brandname a/b/g, dammit!
>
> One day there will be hardware makers across the range of product lines
> that will be trying as hard as OpenBSD developers to attain perfection
> and open docs, sigh....
>  
yep, a couple of ppl emailed me offlist regarding this, unfortunately 
switching to .11b was not an option as we specificaly needed .11a

Damien Miller wrote:

> There are known a/g problems on ath(4), IIRC reyk@ is actively looking
> at them.
>
> -d


Thanx for the update Damien

mattvaldes_(_at_)_satx_(_dot_)_rr_(_dot_)_com wrote:

> Does the above dmesg show the non-working card, and if so, is it ath0 
> or ath1?

Yes it does:

Genric OEM card
ath0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 10
ath0: mac 80.6 phy 4.1 radio 3.6, 802.11a/b/g, MKK1_FCCA, address 
00:ff:76:e0:06:a2
gpio at ath0 not configured

Wistron card
ath1 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 11
ath1: mac 80.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6, 802.11a/b/g, FCC1A, address 
00:0b:6b:34:ad:e5
gpio at ath1 not configured