Hello, and welcome!
If the "fixing pemissions" message repeats with each boot cycle, I would consider a hardware problem more likely than software, as the filesystem is not capable of setting the file mode to 640 ("-rw-r-----"). Boot in single user mode ("-s" in response to the "boot>" prompt), mount the filesystems ("# mount -a") and try a manual chmod(8) against the file. If the system reboots then and there, you will know it is neither the contents of the file nor the ath(4) driver.
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