From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 15 20:02:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9857EC35 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:02:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from k.s.mail@gmx.net) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69A419B for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.24]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MY1FO-1USWin3hOC-00UqC1 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:02:17 +0100 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2013 20:02:17 -0000 Received: from ip-130-180-70-188.unitymediagroup.de (EHLO [192.168.0.103]) [130.180.70.188] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 15 Feb 2013 21:02:17 +0100 X-Authenticated: #32709443 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18tMptKfJstXnVjgH5IoJ8NaR7fvG411ZdQ5xNtrT GKEs8DvBUlhlRp Message-ID: <511E9446.4070708@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:02:14 +0100 From: Kamil Szczesny User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: ath0: device timeout on 9.1-RELEASE References: <51175C69.6050003@gmx.net> <51189E1E.70206@gmx.net> <51194795.5070500@gmx.net> <511E910D.1080901@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:02:20 -0000 Am 15.02.2013 20:55, schrieb Adrian Chadd: > Sure, that shows that your environment is quite noisy. :-) > > But is transmission just plain not happening? Is it just never > associating? Or is it sometimes associating and sometimes not? > It's a bit crowded here ; ) Well as far as I have observed, it never associated. regards, Kamil > > > Adrian > > > On 15 February 2013 11:48, Kamil Szczesny wrote: >> Adrian, >> >> Finally, I managed to get again a 9.1-RELEASE running with a recompiled >> kernel. >> >> gomorrha% uname -v >> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r246834: Fri Feb 15 18:57:51 CET 2013 >> root@gomorrha.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WIFIDEBUG >> >> This is the result of athstats: >> >> gomorrha% /usr/local/bin/athstats -i ath0 >> 32484 data frames received >> 5130 data frames transmit >> 3273 mib overflow interrupts >> 1M current transmit rate >> 190 watchdog timeouts >> 2040 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC >> 7 rx failed 'cuz of PHY err >> 7 CCK restart >> -0/+0 TDMA slot adjust (usecs, smoothed) >> 86 avg recv rssi >> -96 rx noise floor >> 5130 tx frames through raw api >> 1 first step level >> 1 OFDM weak signal detect >> 12 ANI increased spur immunity >> 10 ANI decrease spur immunity >> 990 ANI enabled OFDM weak signal detect >> 2061 ANI disabled OFDM weak signal detect >> 3041 ANI disabled CCK weak signal threshold >> 4 ANI increased first step level >> 2940667 cumulative OFDM phy error count >> 5258173 cumulative CCK phy error count >> 74 bad FCS >> 105 average rssi (beacons only) >> 84 average rssi (all rx'd frames) >> Antenna profile: >> [1] tx 0 rx 32484 >> >> Is it somewhat helpful? >> >> regards, >> Kamil >> >> Am 11.02.2013 20:43, schrieb Adrian Chadd: >> >>> Ok.. >>> >>> On 11 February 2013 11:33, Kamil Szczesny wrote: >>>> >>>> Still with 9.0-RELEASE: >>>> >>>> gomorrha% vmstat -i >>>> interrupt total rate >>>> irq1: atkbd0 6 0 >>>> irq16: ath0 ehci0 1367 13 >>> >>> >>> .. I can't tell here whether there's any interrupts making it to the >>> ath0 device or not. >>> >>> The driver in -HEAD logs the TX and RX interrupt counts in a ath >>> sysctl which I can track. >>> >>> Can you please compile up athstats and recompile your kernel with: >>> >>> ATH_DEBUG >>> AH_DEBUG >>> ATH_DIAGAPI >>> >>> .. as we will need to establish whether you're actually queuing frames >>> to the hardware, whether they're going out, whether the hardware is >>> actually completing them, and whether the interrupt is being >>> generated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>>> irq23: ehci1 250 2 >>>> cpu0:timer 8014 77 >>>> irq256: em0 523 5 >>>> irq258: ahci0 15444 149 >>>> cpu1:timer 2797 27 >>>> cpu2:timer 3743 36 >>>> cpu3:timer 3053 29 >>>> Total 35197 341 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Am 11.02.13 19:59, schrieb Adrian Chadd: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Would you please look at the output of vmstat -i, see if the ath0 >>>>> device is receiving interrupts? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Adrian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 10 February 2013 23:30, Kamil Szczesny wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> after a downgrade to 9.0-RELEASE the issue remains the same. >>>>>> /var/log/messages is spamed by equal authentication timeout entries. >>>>>> >>>>>> regards, >>>>>> Kamil >>>>>> >>>>>> Am 10.02.13 20:10, schrieb Adrian Chadd: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Would you please try 9.0-RELEASE too? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Adrian >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 10 February 2013 00:38, Kamil Szczesny wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm facing a problem with ath0 on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, that was not >>>>>>>> existent >>>>>>>> on 8.x-RELEASE. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The issue seems to be the similar to this one: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-January/065667.html >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I do have the same NIC. pciconf -lv output is equal: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ath0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x3a701186 chip=0x0024168c >>>>>>>> rev=0x01 >>>>>>>> hdr=0x00 >>>>>>>> vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' >>>>>>>> device = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter' >>>>>>>> class = network >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> /etc/rc.conf: >>>>>>>> wlans_ath0="wlan0" >>>>>>>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: >>>>>>>> network={ >>>>>>>> ssid="home" >>>>>>>> psk="123" >>>>>>>> } >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, it is not starting to work. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I do not have /usr/src/tools/ath so that I can not provide the >>>>>>>> output. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> /var/log/messages is spammed with: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Feb 10 09:08:26 gomorrha wpa_supplicant[1500]: Trying to associate >>>>>>>> with >>>>>>>> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='home' freq=2422 MHz) >>>>>>>> Feb 10 09:08:30 gomorrha kernel: ath0: device timeout >>>>>>>> Feb 10 09:08:36 gomorrha wpa_supplicant[1500]: Authentication with >>>>>>>> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Any idea what might be wrong or how I could fix this? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> regards, >>>>>>>> Kamil >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>>>>> "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>> >> >