please (re) test if_ath in -HEAD

Marcelo/Porks marcelorossi at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 13:31:01 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 19:31, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For those of you who are testing out my if_ath changes, I'd really
> appreciate it if you'd update to -HEAD and re-test.
>
> I've done a variety of changes to the radio setup and found/fixed a few bugs
> in the TX path. It's quite possible these have introduced regressions. I'd
> like to make sure that I haven't broken legacy (11abg) support in
> weird/wonderful ways. I'd also like to make sure that I haven't
> broken/changed the behaviour or performance of the NICs in any way.
>
> Please give things a good thrashing and let me know the results.
>
> I'm still working towards debugging and enabling basic 11n support, but I
> need to first make sure that I haven't broken legacy operation in any way.

Hi Adrian. I compiled your changes and everything worked.

I'm using hostapd with WEP key. My kernel/world is compiled with clang.

Is there any kind of test that I can do for you?

There is still a annoying message, but it existed before your update:
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)


-----------------

BARAD-DUR# uname -a
FreeBSD BARAD-DUR 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1 r219303: Sat Mar
5 09:16:19 BRT 2011
root at BARAD-DUR:/usr/clang/obj/mnt/data/system/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

BARAD-DUR# dmesg| grep -i ath
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xfd8f0000-0xfd8fffff irq 16 at device 7.0 on pci1
ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

BARAD-DUR# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:19:e0:8a:0a:d6
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: running


> Thanks,
>
>
> Adrian
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