Greg Troxel a écrit :

> Problem 2: Incoming frames are gibberish.  The system thinks the card
> is doing hw wep.  On doing 'ifconfig ath0 nwkey 0x[redacted]', packets
> can be exchanged with other systems.  On doing 'ifconfig ath0 down'
> and then up, gibberish returns.  (I set ssid/chan/nwkey in
> ifconfig.ath0 before the interface comes up.)

That's what I get with 3.99.9. If, when up, I type "ifconfig ath0 down" 
then "ifconfig ath0 up", the communication would not resume. I have to 
append the key "ifconfig ath0 up nwkey 0xdadadada" and then it works.

I am also constantly experiencing random failures of the link, but 
ifwatch somehow takes care of it through a down/up script.

Just as an example,
tail -100 /var/log/messages

Sep 30 21:07:25 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to UP
Sep 30 21:07:25 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Sep 30 21:07:26 vincent /netbsd: cbb0: wait took 0.008974s
Sep 30 21:07:27 vincent /netbsd: ath0: interrupting at 11
Sep 30 21:07:28 vincent /netbsd: cbb0: wait took 0.009578s
Sep 30 21:07:28 vincent /netbsd: ath0: interrupting at 11
Sep 30 21:07:28 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to UP
Sep 30 21:07:27 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:07:27 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:26:25 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Sep 30 21:26:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:26:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:26:26 vincent /netbsd: cbb0: wait took 0.008943s
Sep 30 21:26:26 vincent /netbsd: ath0: interrupting at 11
Sep 30 21:26:27 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to UP
Sep 30 21:36:25 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Sep 30 21:36:26 vincent /netbsd: cbb0: wait took 0.008807s
Sep 30 21:36:26 vincent /netbsd: ath0: interrupting at 11
Sep 30 21:36:27 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to UP
Sep 30 21:36:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:36:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:46:25 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Sep 30 21:46:26 vincent /netbsd: cbb0: wait took 0.008422s
Sep 30 21:46:26 vincent /netbsd: ath0: interrupting at 11
Sep 30 21:46:27 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to UP
Sep 30 21:46:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:46:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:56:25 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Sep 30 21:56:26 vincent /netbsd: cbb0: wait took 0.008062s
Sep 30 21:56:26 vincent /netbsd: ath0: interrupting at 11
Sep 30 21:56:27 vincent /netbsd: ath0: link state changed to UP
Sep 30 21:56:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600
Sep 30 21:56:25 vincent /usr/sbin/ifwatchd[309]: calling: /etc/athup 
ath0 /dev/null 9600


Strange, it seems to happen every 10 mn or so, or at least each time 
during the 25th second of a minute.

Vincent