Wireless died after working since september

daemorok

The wireless has been rock solid since the day I got it working. The other day the router went down at random and when I restarted it
the wireless SSID wouldn't show up. I logged into the webgui to check settings, everything seems fine. The status screen for the interface
lists the status as "no carrier" which i believe was no there before… beyond that I am lost.

I am running pfsense 1.2.3 on this hardware:
board: ALIX.2D13
wireless card: DCMA-82 Atheros 6G: 802.11a/b/g High Power mPCI Card

Here is the out put on the interfaces status screen:

Here are the settings of the wireless interface:

Here is the output of ifconfig -a:

$ ifconfig -a
vr0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=2808 <vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet x.x.x.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.255
inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe1e:4f90%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
vr1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=280b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe1e:4f91%vr1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet y.y.y.102 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
vr2: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=280b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
ath0: flags=8903 <up,broadcast,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet6 fe80::20b:6bff:fe2f:f105%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>(autoselect <hostap,turbo>)
status: no carrier
ssid mySSID channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g Turbo)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 31.5 scanvalid 60 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 pureg
protmode OFF wme burst -apbridge dtimperiod 1
enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
pfsync0: flags=41 <up,running>metric 0 mtu 1460
pfsync: syncdev: lo0 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33204
bridge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: vr0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200000
member: ath0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 4 priority 128 path cost 370370

If you need any other info let me know.</learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></promisc></up,running></up,loopback,running,multicast></hostap,turbo></hostap></up,broadcast,promisc,simplex,multicast></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></broadcast,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>

Efonnes

What happens if you specify a channel instead of using auto?

daemorok

Wow… that actually worked I didn't even think to mess with that.

It has been on auto since I originally configured it.

Thanks!