From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 20:05:08 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 091883DE for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marge.meraka.csir.co.za (marge.meraka.csir.co.za [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:3::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A7A2103 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jeep.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:3:223:aeff:fea7:a3c2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by marge.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC767D0CC1E for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:04:50 +0200 (SAST) From: Johann Hugo To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:04:48 +0204 Message-ID: <5520556.ca3p8qHkHk@jeep> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.3 (FreeBSD/9.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.9.3; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:05:08 -0000 Hi After an upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 11.0 I'm losing comms to some of the wifi clients that worked when I was using FreeBSD 9.0 (long distance links in mesh) On CURRENT the devices are still showing with list sta, but the idle counter keeps growing + no comms to them. FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 0 104 0M 9.5 0 421 60496 I A 00:21:a4:35:6c:96 0 104 54M 21.0 0 98 10496 I AQ WME 00:21:a4:35:83:38 0 104 6M 6.5 0 28 448 I AQ WME 00:21:a4:35:83:1b 0 104 9M 8.0 0 4680 37056 I AQ WME 00:80:48:62:e1:0f 0 104 6M 9.5 0 50 47136 I AQ WME FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 0 104 0M 13.5 0 142 38384 I A 00:21:a4:35:6c:96 0 104 54M 22.0 0 11 18048 I AQ WME 00:21:a4:35:83:1b 0 104 6M 8.0 60 0 0 I AQ WME 00:80:48:62:e1:0f 0 104 6M 11.5 30 0 41248 A 00:21:a4:35:83:38 0 104 6M 7.0 60 0 0 I AQ WME ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1 r229528:231308: Wed Nov 27 12:21:54 SAST 2013 root@magrathea.meraka.csir.co.za:/scratch/9-stable- old/obj/arm.armeb/var/scratch/9-stable-old/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm dmesg ath1: irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0 [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP ath1: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan1 wlan1: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9 prefixlen 64 nd6 options=21 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a status: running ssid mesh05 channel 104 (5520 MHz 11a) bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05 regdomain NONE country ZA anywhere ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 27 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7 11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 turboA ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 turboG ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 sturbo ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 11na ucast NONE mgmt 12 MCS mcast 12 MCS maxretry 6 11ng ucast NONE mgmt 2 MCS mcast 2 MCS maxretry 6 half ucast NONE mgmt 3 Mb/s mcast 3 Mb/s maxretry 6 quarter ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s roam:turboA rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:turboG rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:sturbo rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1 roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1 roam:half rssi 7dBm rate 6 Mb/s roam:quarter rssi 7dBm rate 3 Mb/s -pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8 -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs wme burst -dwds roaming AUTO bintval 100 AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm groups: wlan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 11.0 dmesg ath1: irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0 [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP ath1: AR9220 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 ath1: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0 mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r269182M: Mon Jul 28 14:51:06 SAST 2014 root@magrathea.meraka.csir.co.za:/var/scratch/11- current/obj/arm.armeb/var/scratch/11-current/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan1 wlan1: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9 prefixlen 64 groups: wlan ssid mesh05 channel 104 (5520 MHz 11a) bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05 regdomain NONE country ZA anywhere ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 27 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7 11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 turboA ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 turboG ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 sturbo ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 11na ucast NONE mgmt 12 MCS mcast 12 MCS maxretry 6 11ng ucast NONE mgmt 2 MCS mcast 2 MCS maxretry 6 half ucast NONE mgmt 3 Mb/s mcast 3 Mb/s maxretry 6 quarter ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s roam:turboA rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:turboG rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:sturbo rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1 roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1 roam:half rssi 7dBm rate 6 Mb/s roam:quarter rssi 7dBm rate 3 Mb/s -pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8 -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs wme burst -dwds roaming AUTO bintval 100 AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a status: running nd6 options=21