Subject: Re: wireless lan (802.11g) cards
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/2004 11:56:04
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:28:43PM +0100, Thomas Runge wrote:
> 
> While we are at 802.11g.
> 
> I've got a Netgear WAG511 pc-card in my Soekris box as a replacement
> for my trusty DWL-650 working as an AP.
> 
> Everything works as fine as before, as long as I use 11b mode.
> Whenever I switch the card to 11a or 11g, the box reboots quite
> fast, mostly a few seconds after it got up.
> 
> Using top it seems, it dies off of interrupt storms, I see
> the kernel spending 70-90% of it's time in interrupts.

Update your ath sources; sysctl -w ath.debug=2; tell me what you see.

Dave

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