Possibly related to ath0 Ierrs

[Steev Klimaszewski]

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Hello, I was looking through the archive, and I came across the ath0
Ierrs thread - and I am facing a similar issue.

A little background...

The machine is a 1ghz Athlon, with 640MB of ram.  There is a vr0 device,
a de0 device, and sis0 device and an ath0 device.  The ath0 device is a
TP-Link TL-WN650G.  This means the antenna is actually built on to the
card, and cannot be removed.

The operating system of the machine is actually pfSense 1.2-RC4, which
is based on FreeBSD 6.2.

Linux reports this Atheros card (and another that I also had similar
issues with) as

02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

Basically what I come up with is, when in ap mode, cards can connect,
however I cannot push any traffic through the Atheros card.  This was
tested with a DWL-G650, a Cisco Aironet 350, an Orinoco Gold Classic, as
well as a Broadcom 4318 card.  All of them can connect to the Atheros
card, but no traffic gets passed, and I cannot ping the ap either.

the output of athstats is (with no cards connected):

# athstats
1 hardware error interrupts
525 tx management frames
831 tx frames discarded prior to association
10 tx stopped 'cuz no xmit buffer
232 tx failed 'cuz FIFO underrun
1110 tx failed 'cuz bogus xmit rate
368 tx frames with rts enabled
720 tx frames with an alternate rate
6032 rx failed 'cuz of FIFO overrun
2875 rx management frames
161904 beacon setup failed 'cuz no mbuf
379518991 beacons transmitted
588 periodic calibration failures
21 tx used alternate antenna
Antenna profile:
[2] tx      766 rx     4802
[3] tx      341 rx        0


And if I attempt to connect a card, I get:

# athstats
1 hardware error interrupts
559 tx management frames
21779 tx frames discarded prior to association
10 tx stopped 'cuz no xmit buffer
238 tx failed 'cuz FIFO underrun
1154 tx failed 'cuz bogus xmit rate
392 tx frames with rts enabled
737 tx frames with an alternate rate
6101 rx failed 'cuz of FIFO overrun
2898 rx management frames
164038 beacon setup failed 'cuz no mbuf
1822242855 beacons transmitted
596 periodic calibration failures
449 tx used alternate antenna
Antenna profile:
[2] tx    11248 rx    25151
[3] tx    10836 rx      632


This is a new card (the TL-WN650G) - so I am wondering if maybe I just
happened to have gotten a bad card?  Any light that can be shed on this
would be greatly appreciated.  The pfSense irc channel is not extremely
active so I haven't gotten much help out of them as to anything that
pfSense itself does, so I can better troubleshoot.

Thanks for you time,
Steev
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