Kapfhammer, Stefan @ 2015-12-27T22:44:09 +0100:
> Good evening,
>
> I cannot access hotspot with apu2b4's wle200nx wifi card.
>
> got ath0: device timeout
[...]
How come it's not athn? Is this the full and only error message?
>From athn(4):
athn0: device timeout A frame dispatched to the hardware for
transmission did not complete in time. The driver will reset the
hardware. This should not happen.
Can you try the minipcie card in an other board, or switch minipcie
slots?
[...]
> -----> athn0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9281" rev 0x01: apic 4 int 16
> -----> athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address <not displayed>
[...]
> # ifconfig
>
> athn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lladdr <not shown>
> priority: 4
> groups: wlan
> media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM6 mode 11a)
> status: no network
> ieee80211: nwid <not shown> chan 9 wpakey 0x<not shown> wpaprotos
> wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip
>
> # cat /etc/hostname.athn0
>
> nwid TESTNET
> wpakey 'Do!Not-deal+w1th-IT'
> dhcp
I'm using exactly the same minipcie card, in almost the same board
(apu1d), only with -current, and in hostap mode.
Just off the top of my head, you could try to set media to autoselect,
and make sure that you use the right mode:
# ifconfig athn0 media
[...]
supported media:
media autoselect
media autoselect mediaopt hostap
media autoselect mediaopt monitor
media autoselect mode 11a
media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt hostap
media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt monitor
media autoselect mode 11b
media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt hostap
media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt monitor
media autoselect mode 11g
media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap
media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt monitor
The one and only problem with my WLE card was that I set the mode to 11g
before setting it to a 5GHz channel, and that combo does not exist, and
I could not set it back without a reboot. But other than that, it is
performing really well, set to 11a and 5GHz.
Daniel
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