From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 07:39:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3744FDBE for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:39:24 +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 8867423D8 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:39:22 +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 6DE3BD0CC03 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:38:57 +0200 (SAST) From: Johann Hugo To: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" Subject: Atheros 9220 in 11a mode Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:38:56 +0204 Message-ID: <5909485.NSLuUH4TOr@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: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:39:24 -0000 Hi Are there any special settings needed to operate a 11n adapter in 11a mode ? e.g. dev.ath.0.rxantenna I've managed to get it into 11a mode, but for some reason more that 80% of all big packets are dropped, small packets works fine. mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #16 r268838M: Thu Jul 24 14:41:29 SAST 2014 jhay@dolphin.meraka.csir.co.za:/usr/obj/arm.armeb/snaps/arm/11- tst/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm dmesg: ath0: irq 28 at device 1.0 on pci0 [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams ath0: AR9220 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0 mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan0 channel 112:a/20 mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:9a inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet6 fde4:7b85:9218:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a prefixlen 64 inet6 fde4:7b85:9218:10:: prefixlen 64 anycast ssid ptabb channel 112 (5560 MHz 11a ht/40-) bssid 02:02:ca:fe:12:34 regdomain NONE country ZA ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 27 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8 shortgi wme burst media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na status: running nd6 options=21 mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan0 mode 11a mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:9a inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet6 fde4:7b85:9218:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a prefixlen 64 inet6 fde4:7b85:9218:10:: prefixlen 64 anycast ssid ptabb channel 112 (5560 MHz 11a ht/40-) bssid 02:02:ca:fe:12:34 regdomain NONE country ZA ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 27 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8 shortgi wme burst media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na status: running nd6 options=21 This one does the trick. mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan0 -ht mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan0 wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:9a inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet6 fde4:7b85:9218:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a prefixlen 64 inet6 fde4:7b85:9218:10:: prefixlen 64 anycast groups: wlan ssid ptabb channel 112 (5560 MHz 11a) bssid 02:02:ca:fe:12:34 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 mesh-6c9a:~ # ping6 -i 0.1 -s 1450 fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0 PING6(1498=40+8+1450 bytes) fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6c9a%wlan0 --> fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=4 hlim=64 time=5.141 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=9 hlim=64 time=7.357 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=14 hlim=64 time=6.035 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=92 hlim=64 time=10.437 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=102 hlim=64 time=17.306 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=103 hlim=64 time=7.724 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=104 hlim=64 time=13.918 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=202 hlim=64 time=7.162 ms 1458 bytes from fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0, icmp_seq=206 hlim=64 time=9.092 ms ^C --- fe80::221:a4ff:fe31:2a55%wlan0 ping6 statistics --- 209 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 95.7% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 5.141/9.352/17.306/3.735 ms B.t.w the same setup works fine if I swap the 11n adapter with a 11a adapter (Atheros 5413 chipset)