From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 06:01:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB51106566C; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:01:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC318FC08; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so1348605vws.13 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:01:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8lFohM4BlJYwYiRcrcWx3nxUORWjD1Jj2j2A2v7UioM=; b=lVL89MgTfr1A4O2Nj0OVkbsJ2QK8MjUqsX4aujX8jWqj39Exb1LokJc34eJlghQrXW 1/ep6iC/P5n6+vaaqm1Adnt+xLWtP8b6XxtiFgBcupIIj68wX0Sm4nkxb+hNDioLv2y1 uKL89KFmqq+RYVQt6k+QA7HCp5fOcRV4E6miw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QK6eoE411cUkc8kOXWtlBZW1RM5Z6cUd0wa0W1asJInCsl408YF9xzgn811eqkUKzV D5DP++PLzPUfzCEu3EaOY71s5xM2rIyJT1C89HkZzjxJiZUmeGWGKLKFJGOsJJsO7bao tA5coMocZ1sWCbpiGu3KovTZyISHjdcNrvEpE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.96.202 with SMTP id i10mr744702vcn.191.1295762511207; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.198.203 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:01:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:01:51 +0800 Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Ian FREISLICH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More if_ath churn coming your way! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:01:52 -0000 Make sure you're absolutely, positively not doing power saving stuff. I'm quite certain the ar5416+ HAL is just not doing the right thing re: power saving mode. Adrian On 23 January 2011 13:55, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Adrian Chadd wrote: >> I haven't changed anything on the AR9285 codebase that would account >> for the above. > > That maybe. =A0The visible difference in behaviour is that when there's > no traffic, the reported rate drops to 1Mbps. =A0As soon as there's > traffic it jumps to 54Mbps. > >> Something to keep in mind with the AR9280/AR9285 support is that I've >> seen it be -very- unpredictable - sometimes it's reliable off the bat, >> sometimes it's not. You have to repeat it a few times to verify that >> you've actually seen a change. > > So far, I've had instances where it's stopped transmitting or > recieving. =A0It claims to remain associated, but restarting the wlan > interface fails to reestablish the association and a list scan is > empty. =A0It only seems to happen when the laptop is running on battery. > > Ian > > -- > Ian Freislich >