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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2006 13:02:24 -0700
From:      Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More 'resource' problems with "ath0"
Message-ID:  <7.0.1.0.1.20060517125415.01e0f568@live555.com>
In-Reply-To: <446B44B0.5030908@errno.com>
References:  <7.0.1.0.1.20060517080119.01e00df8@live555.com> <446B44B0.5030908@errno.com>

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>Please do not cross-post.

My apologies.  Now that it's established that this problem is 
specific to the "ath" driver, and not to more general FreeBSD 
networking code, I'll restrict future postings to "freebsd-mobile" only.

>The transmit queue is full; you need to understand why.  Basic info 
>includes the card info (dmes|grep ath) and ifconfig output.

I've seen the problem happen on two different machines, with two 
different interface cards (although both with Atheros chipsets):

Machine1:
%dmesg | fgrep ath
ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe1020000-0xe102ffff irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:80:48:3c:6c:00
ath0: mac 10.5 phy 6.1 radio 6.3

%ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 66.80.0.4 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 66.80.0.15
         inet6 fe80::280:48ff:fe3c:6c00%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
         ether 00:80:48:3c:6c:00
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b <hostap>
         status: associated
         ssid LIVE555 channel 3 bssid 00:80:48:3c:6c:00
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 38 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1
         bintval 100

Machine 2:
%dmesg|fgrep ath
ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x41400000-0x4140ffff irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:13:46:98:3b:13
ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6

%ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 66.80.62.41 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 66.80.62.47
         inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe98:3b13%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         ether 00:13:46:98:3b:13
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b <hostap>
         status: associated
         ssid LIVE555 channel 3 bssid 00:13:46:98:3b:13
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 36 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1
         bintval 100


>   It usually helps to explain how you make your problem to 
> occur--if you can identify something you are doing.

No, unfortunately there's nothing specific that seems to reproduce 
this - just some communication to and/or from a remote client.

>   Past that there are tools in src/tools/tools such as ath/athstats 
> for dumping the driver statistics.

If there's anything specific that I can run (at the time I see the 
problem) that may help identify the problem, please let me know.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

         Ross.





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