Hi Misc, I recently have built myself a pcengines alix single board computer with an Winstrom CM9 (atheros ar5212) mini pci wifi card, that according to ath(4) supports hostap mode. I believe I have my hostname.ath0 file setup correctly, but the card refuses to go into 11g mode, only using 11b/11a. When attempting to run "sh /etc/netstart ath0" with the below hostnames.ath0, I receive no error message. The card just goes into 11b or 11a mode.
Is there something I'm missing, or any debugging I can provide to get this functionality working? Currently I am running the 4.6 stable branch on this machine. Thanks, Jeff dmesg: OpenBSD 4.6-stable (GENERIC) #2: Sun Mar 7 23:07:23 EST 2010 r...@builder:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 499 MHz cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX real mem = 268009472 (255MB) avail mem = 250335232 (238MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 11/05/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd088 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable. pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xa800 cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x33 glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10, address 00:0d:b9:1b:b6:4c ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034 vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11, address 00:0d:b9:1b:b6:4d ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034 vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 15, address 00:0d:b9:1b:b6:4e ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034 ath0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 9 ath0: AR5213A 5.9 phy 4.3 rf5112a 3.6, FCC2A*, address 00:1b:b1:02:de:ad glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 0, 32-bit 3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-008G> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 7641MB, 15649200 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 12, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 12 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at glxpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask 71e7 netmask ffe7 ttymask ffff mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers) nvram: invalid checksum umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Western Digital External HDD" rev 2.00/1.75 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <WD, 2500BMV External, 1.75> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sec, 488397168 sec total softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b # cat /etc/hostname.ath0 inet 10.10.1.1 255.255.255.0 10.10.1.255 mediaopt hostap nwid mywifi wpa wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpapsk redacted description "Wireless HostAP" # ifconfig ath0 media ath0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:1b:b1:de:ad description: Wireless HostAP priority: 4 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11b hostap status: active ieee80211: nwid mywifi chan 3 bssid 00:1b:b1:02:66:f1 wpapsk redacted wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip supported media: media autoselect media autoselect mediaopt ibss media autoselect mediaopt hostap media autoselect mediaopt monitor media autoselect mode 11a media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt ibss media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM6 mode 11a media OFDM6 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM6 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM6 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM9 mode 11a media OFDM9 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM9 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM9 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM12 mode 11a media OFDM12 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM12 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM12 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM18 mode 11a media OFDM18 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM18 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM18 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM24 mode 11a media OFDM24 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM24 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM24 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM36 mode 11a media OFDM36 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM36 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM36 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM48 mode 11a media OFDM48 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM48 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM48 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media OFDM54 mode 11a media OFDM54 mode 11a mediaopt ibss media OFDM54 mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM54 mode 11a mediaopt monitor media autoselect mode 11b media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt ibss media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt monitor media DS1 mode 11b media DS1 mode 11b mediaopt ibss media DS1 mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS1 mode 11b mediaopt monitor media DS2 mode 11b media DS2 mode 11b mediaopt ibss media DS2 mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS2 mode 11b mediaopt monitor media DS5 mode 11b media DS5 mode 11b mediaopt ibss media DS5 mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS5 mode 11b mediaopt monitor media DS11 mode 11b media DS11 mode 11b mediaopt ibss media DS11 mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS11 mode 11b mediaopt monitor media OFDM6 media OFDM6 mediaopt ibss media OFDM6 mediaopt hostap media OFDM6 mediaopt monitor media OFDM9 media OFDM9 mediaopt ibss media OFDM9 mediaopt hostap media OFDM9 mediaopt monitor media OFDM12 media OFDM12 mediaopt ibss media OFDM12 mediaopt hostap media OFDM12 mediaopt monitor media OFDM18 media OFDM18 mediaopt ibss media OFDM18 mediaopt hostap media OFDM18 mediaopt monitor media OFDM24 media OFDM24 mediaopt ibss media OFDM24 mediaopt hostap media OFDM24 mediaopt monitor media OFDM36 media OFDM36 mediaopt ibss media OFDM36 mediaopt hostap media OFDM36 mediaopt monitor media OFDM48 media OFDM48 mediaopt ibss media OFDM48 mediaopt hostap media OFDM48 mediaopt monitor media OFDM54 media OFDM54 mediaopt ibss media OFDM54 mediaopt hostap media OFDM54 mediaopt monitor media DS1 media DS1 mediaopt ibss media DS1 mediaopt hostap media DS1 mediaopt monitor media DS2 media DS2 mediaopt ibss media DS2 mediaopt hostap media DS2 mediaopt monitor media DS5 media DS5 mediaopt ibss media DS5 mediaopt hostap media DS5 mediaopt monitor media DS11 media DS11 mediaopt ibss media DS11 mediaopt hostap media DS11 mediaopt monitor inet 10.10.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.1.255