From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 15:53:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B76106566C for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolay.kanchev@amk-drives.bg) Received: from amk-drives.bg (mail.amk-drives.bg [213.91.234.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E8B68FC0A for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolay.kanchev@amk-drives.bg) Received: (qmail 75032 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2009 17:35:41 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.13?) (nikolay.kanchev@amk-drives.bg@192.168.0.13) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Mar 2009 17:35:41 +0200 Message-ID: <49C7A8E5.2090909@amk-drives.bg> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:21:09 +0200 From: Nikolay Kanchev Organization: AMK User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Atheros AR5211 802.11a can't send packets X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:53:34 -0000 Hello list I have trouble with miniPCI Atheros AR5211 based card and 802.11a mode on Freebsd 7.1 and 7.2 PRERELEASE Notebook: Pentium M 1.5GHz from FreeBSD 7.2 generic kernel dmesg ------------------------ ath0: mem 0xe0200000-0xe020ffff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:ff:f3:a0:28:02 ath0: mac 4.2 phy 3.0 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3 ------------------------ pciconf ------------------------ ath0@pci0:2:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x7005144f chip=0x0012168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5211 802.11a/b/g Mini-PCI Wireless Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet ------------------------ When I try to operate in 802.11a mode the card associate with AP but can't send packets. I try ping and check that the packets go through firewall but disappear somewhere, in tcpdump I don't see send packets. I try to ping my notebook from other PC and in tcpdump I see "arp who-has" and other packets from other PC but again no packets from AR5211 card. In 802.11b mode card is working fine. I try the card on windows and its working. ahtstats output: 13 data frames received 2 data frames transmit 65 long on-chip tx retries 4 tx failed 'cuz too many retries 1M current transmit rate 28 beacon miss interrupts 1746 tx management frames 2385 tx frames discarded prior to association 1703 tx frames with no ack marked 884 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC 30 periodic calibrations 2 rfgain value change 7 avg recv rssi -96 rx noise floor 24 phantom beacon misses 53 tx discarded 'cuz queue is full Antenna profile: [0] tx 1739 rx 0 [1] tx 0 rx 6942 "tx discarded 'cuz queue is full" counter increased with ping packets. I try AR5006 based PCcard and it working fine on FreeBSD 7.1 and 7.2 It seems that only AR5211 driver have problems and can't send packets. -- Best regards, Nikolay Kanchev