From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 12:23:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80441636; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x22e.google.com (mail-lb0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 079A5EA8; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id w7so6138863lbi.19 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:23:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=IU1ykUzsep04ELUq7IbQ2l28tFIxF+qf8M6EKatO2/U=; b=xEPUVZZkxjDDcBrx9O00HLdXXI7hu64u8zXyd5d900COgexV0sCceJwxUw8PjV884K CmC+dAkUJaHJEXUH3rpnLroVbTg3unDlFzlAE5S200lbR7GiFjgEfNzf5QwvqeLbrH2K Wrzsy7ChHvrjxjYgfcPkjiOrLKznPy6Lyu6KD3mHYYvHd8vjy/LSPkPQkWqgkuFMdGzW xGL1t6nVGvZ5fLJiuzUBHGfmToUGktAzQUUSTtQIHE2fDFQEAUD9iK3v4ckJ0FVS+mGT YymG1xu6PD/WBL2YFwn7+3iG07WPjS/pK0YuqplOK9Q6f+r1l8xUo6AMi9S6eOVmxgVh xQkQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.87.171 with SMTP id az11mr14754479lab.37.1416745435810; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:23:55 -0800 (PST) Sender: thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com Received: by 10.25.77.201 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:23:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20141122171734.GA4600@marvin2011.fritz.box> <5470C695.3040204@yahoo.com.br> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:23:55 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AcG4psOMppKY4ey_Xj_tp-Sypos Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath(4) device timeout -> reboot necessary From: Thomas Zander To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Danilo Egea Gondolfo , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:23:58 -0000 On 22 November 2014 at 19:11, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Try setting > sysctl dev.ath.0.hal.force_full_reset=1 Thanks Adrian. I put this into sysctl.conf and observe the effects over the next weeks. > But the reason the AR9287 is going deaf is still unknown. In station > mode we detect it by seeing missed beacons and doing a hardware reset. > In AP mode we don't have that; we just see it failing to do noise > floor calibration and we never hear any frames. Then I guess I am lucky that at the moment I operate the device only in station mode :) > There are also issues with wpa_supplicant being run more than once at > a time due to issues with the rc script side of things and it's > confusing the wifi drivers. I haven't really looked into it in that > much detail - I was hoping the RC scripts would be fixed, but I'm > going to have to fix the driver to at least not confuse the hardware. True, looking into the rc scripts is certainly a part of the job, but as you said, getting the driver reliable "no matter what" would definitely be appreciated. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help debugging / testing! Best regards Riggs