Will I lose my dignity? Will you still care?

So, I use pfSense as my router – it has a spiffy web interface, and the shell isn’t too horrible either. It is FreeBSD 6.2 based… and the wireless cards are Atheros based.

02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

is what both are reported as in Linux, and they work fine, as long as they aren’t in ap mode… Once I put them into AP mode, clients can associate, but they can not/will not pass any traffic. And if I look at the Interfaces page in the webgui, it shows tons of errors. One card is brand new, courtesy of Robert Piasek, and one card dsd sent me a while back, since I had no Atheros cards, and I was the madwifi-ng maintainer. The reason for the Atheros based, is that they are rock solid in FreeBSD (typically) however, as I stated above – I get nothing but errors with them now. This is why I haven’t done anything with NetworkManager lately, and really, all I can do at this point is to test the madwifi-ng drivers by loading them.

Kismet and the like work with them as well – the errors that I see don’t seem to affect that operation at all… just when I try to use the card in ap mode.

Anyone have any ideas what would cause this? Sure I know most people are using Gentoo, but perhaps someone in the Gentoo/FreeBSD team has some idea, or someone might point me to something they’ve seen…