Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:09:14 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IWN hangs periodically on 10.0RC3 Message-ID: <CAN6yY1v98ZGOnC0Fn=WO1_EPkGDfWnw8JwNP%2BHB4RQ=DOw4zBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonUjdDQpshS6kc-h9a7LutZLrAXTtZeavEp296ncx=k_g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1ujxmUBo-jt8QRa6ozRk8otSX-4LHGum=4na9ObkEGxXQ@mail.gmail.com> <e630ae96669b34cc3f2ba0efadee9aa1@mail.0x20.net> <CAJ-Vmo=mKRTR6vzCUUA5cR8rHDhnhcUcQj1DFCnkPwqqb6PBHg@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1vhP1gQENAPPicxAwBTQ5nXBJRw9ZobDJc=sw8NnFUBpA@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1sh_yrngFAgkR9fxuASF6S6XpnAfkUOQS3xadto8z=Mrw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonUjdDQpshS6kc-h9a7LutZLrAXTtZeavEp296ncx=k_g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > What's in dmesg? Did the firmware panic? > > Adrian > pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 iwn0: <Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205> mem 0xf2400000-0xf2401fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3 [...] wlan0: Ethernet address: a0:88:b4:c6:ad:28 ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, nat loadable, default to deny, logging disabled These are the only entries that look even a bit related to the wireless. Let me know if you want the whole thing. No indication I see of a firmware panic in either dmesg or var/log/messages. [EOF] > On Jan 28, 2014 2:16 AM, "Kevin Oberman" <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>wrote: >>> >>>> .. when you see it hang, does anything get logged in dmesg (eg a >>>> firmware panic) ? >>>> >>>> Try recompiling your kernel with: >>>> >>>> IEEE80211_DEBUG >>>> IWN_DEBUG >>>> >>>> That way it can be debugged :) >>>> >>>> The first thing I'd check is whether there's more fun races going on >>>> in the crypto code - try wlandebug +crypto . >>>> >>>> >>>> -a >>>> >>> >>> I just sent a message about issues I am seeing with my IWN to wireless@. >>> Then I saw these responses. Sorry. >>> >>> As far as logs go, I wee a number if cases of the following sequence: >>> Jan 1 18:00:12 rogue dbus[1451]: [system] Activating service >>> name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) >>> Jan 1 18:00:12 rogue dbus[1451]: [system] Successfully activated >>> service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' >>> Jan 1 18:28:56 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: wlan0: >>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:26:b8:67:c3:2d reason=0 >>> Jan 1 18:28:56 rogue kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: wlan0: Trying to associate >>> with 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d (SSID='babcom' freq=2437 MHz) >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: wlan0: Associated with >>> 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue dhclient[652]: send_packet: No buffer space >>> available >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue devd: Executing '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart >>> wlan0' >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: wlan0: WPA: Key negotiation >>> completed with 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] >>> Jan 1 18:28:59 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - >>> Connection to 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d completed [id=1 id_str=] >>> Jan 1 18:29:02 rogue dhclient: New IP Address (wlan0): 192.168.1.5 >>> Jan 1 18:29:02 rogue dhclient: New Subnet Mask (wlan0): 255.255.255.0 >>> Jan 1 18:29:02 rogue dhclient: New Broadcast Address (wlan0): >>> 192.168.1.255 >>> Jan 1 18:29:02 rogue dhclient: New Routers (wlan0): 192.168.1.1 >>> >>> So it seems that the bounce is happening fairly often, but the system >>> usually recovers. It seems to be pretty consistently 2-3 time4s a day. >>> Note that the dbus messages about packagekit always immediately precede >>> the link going down. >>> >>> Every tthe or four of these fail to recover: >>> Jan 3 14:09:05 rogue kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN >>> Jan 3 14:09:56 rogue ntpd[1303]: sendto(198.129.254.218) (fd=25): >>> Network is down >>> Jan 3 14:10:15 rogue ntpd[1303]: sendto(208.79.18.86) (fd=25): Network >>> is down >>> Jan 3 14:10:29 rogue ntpd[1303]: sendto(198.124.252.90) (fd=25): >>> Network is down >>> Jan 3 14:10:49 rogue ntpd[1303]: sendto(198.55.111.5) (fd=25): Network >>> is down >>> Jan 3 14:11:00 rogue ntpd[1303]: sendto(192.95.38.104) (fd=25): Network >>> is down >>> Jan 3 14:14:02 rogue ntpd[1303]: sendto(198.129.252.38) (fd=25): >>> Network is down >>> Jan 3 14:14:12 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, >>> val=0, arg_len=0]: Operation not supported >>> Jan 3 14:14:12 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, >>> val=0, arg_len=0]: Operation not supported >>> Jan 3 14:14:12 rogue wpa_supplicant[620]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING >>> Jan 3 14:14:12 rogue dhclient[652]: connection closed >>> Jan 3 14:14:12 rogue dhclient[652]: exiting. >>> Jan 3 14:14:12 rogue wpa_supplicant[67153]: Successfully initialized >>> wpa_supplicant >>> Jan 3 14:14:16 rogue wpa_supplicant[67154]: wlan0: Trying to associate >>> with 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d (SSID='babcom' freq=2437 MHz) >>> Jan 3 14:14:16 rogue wpa_supplicant[67154]: wlan0: Associated with >>> 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d >>> Jan 3 14:14:16 rogue kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP >>> Jan 3 14:14:16 rogue devd: Executing '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart >>> wlan0' >>> Jan 3 14:14:16 rogue dhclient[67191]: send_packet: No buffer space >>> available >>> Jan 3 14:14:17 rogue wpa_supplicant[67154]: wlan0: WPA: Key negotiation >>> completed with 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] >>> Jan 3 14:14:17 rogue wpa_supplicant[67154]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED >>> - Connection to 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d completed [id=1 id_str=] >>> Jan 3 14:14:18 rogue dhclient: New IP Address (wlan0): 192.168.1.5 >>> Jan 3 14:14:18 rogue dhclient: New Subnet Mask (wlan0): 255.255.255.0 >>> Jan 3 14:14:18 rogue dhclient: New Broadcast Address (wlan0): >>> 192.168.1.255 >>> Jan 3 14:14:18 rogue dhclient: New Routers (wlan0): 192.168.1.1 >>> >>> The restart took place when I restarted the interface about 5 minutes >>> after it went down and, as you can see, it came up normally. I'll admit >>> that I am completely baffled by the dbus/packagekit tie-in as I can't see >>> what packagekit would do to touch the network. >>> >>> I'll be building a new kernel with debug shortly. >>> >>> In my other message (to wireless) I also mentioned the (possibly >>> unrelated) issue of poor performance and and periodic sub-second >>> connectivity drops. >>> >>> -- >>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >>> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com >>> >> >> I was about to send a report that removing bgscan fixed the issue, but, >> then it happened again. Nothing new in the log from prior cases. Any other >> flags to I should try to set in wlandebug? state? assoc? I'll admit that I >> have no idea which might be helpful. >> >> One thing I seem to have failed to post is the ifconfig after the failure: >> wlan0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric >> 0 mtu 1500 >> ether a0:88:b4:c6:ad:28 >> inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) >> status: no carrier >> ssid "" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) >> country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF >> txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL >> >> Note: My AP is on channel 6. >> -- >> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com >> > -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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