In message <4355847E.6050001@errno.com>, Sam Leffler writes:

>
>I'm starting to ramp up involvement in netbsd.  OTOH I typically ignore =

>complaints unless they include useful info.  Perhaps netbsd folks don't =

>have ready access to useful tools like athstats, 80211stats and the =

>equivalent *debug apps--or maybe they're integrated into other programs =

>(I'm still learning).  The ath support in general is not perfect but it =

>actually works very well on many systems.  If netbsd folks are having =

>problems then it should be possible to remedy them.  Of course if you're=
 =

>not willing to deal with some bumps then by all means fall back to =

>another card.
>


Sam, as far as I know the only diagnostic output we can get is from =

wlanctl and ifconfig.  Here's the output from my laptop right now -- it =

associated, but it took a few tries.

# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ssid yyyyyyyy nwkey xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        powersave off
        bssid 00:0f:66:77:73:d3 chan 6
        address: 00:05:4e:4d:3e:20
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g (OFDM36 mode 11g)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.2.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
        inet6 fe80::205:4eff:fe4d:3e20%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
# wlanctl ath0
ath0: mac 00:0f:66:75:3d:75 bss 00:0f:66:75:3d:75
        node flags 0000
        ess <yyyyyyyy>
        chan 1 freq 2412MHz flags 00e0<cck,ofdm,2.4GHz>
        capabilities 0411<ess,privacy,short slot-time>
        beacon-interval 100 TU tsft 6234588389675 us
        rates *1.0 *2.0 *5.5 6.0 9.0 *11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 [54.0=
]
        assoc-id 0 assoc-failed 2 inactivity 300s
        rssi 19 txseq 15 rxseq 32672
ath0: mac 00:0f:66:77:73:d3 bss 00:0f:66:77:73:d3
        node flags 0001<bss>
        ess <yyyyyyyy>
        chan 6 freq 2437MHz flags 00e0<cck,ofdm,2.4GHz>
        capabilities 0411<ess,privacy,short slot-time>
        beacon-interval 100 TU tsft 6234441523590 us
        rates *1.0 *2.0 *5.5 6.0 9.0 *11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 [36.0] 48.0 54.=
0
        assoc-id 49155 assoc-failed 0 inactivity 300s
        rssi 54 txseq 2 rxseq 26976


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb