ath0: lot of bad series hwrate and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 10:11:42 UTC 2010


On 30/11/2010 00:25, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> (I should get me an AR9285 to test with at some point.)
>
> On 29 November 2010 18:52, David DEMELIER<demelier.david at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0
>> ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0
>> ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0
>> ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0
> That's ath_rate_sample saying "I don't know about that hardware rate",
> but it transmitted successfully!
> So something queued up a patcket at that hwrate. 0x1B is CCK_1MB_L -
> that should be fine in 11bg?
> Or is this somehow running in 11A mode? Would you please paste
> 'ifconfig wlan0' here?
markand at Melon ~ $ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
     ether c4:17:fe:c4:14:b9
     inet 130.79.183.186 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 130.79.183.255
     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
     status: associated
     ssid osiris-sec channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:26:99:23:69:23
     regdomain 106 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
     deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7
     scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
     roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL bintval 102

>> I also don't understand why the option AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 is needed in
>> kernel, I found this
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/006417.html
>> and it should include it if the driver needs it, isn't it? Here my
>> kernel won't build if I remove it so I have :
>>
>> options         AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
>> device          ath
>> device          ath_hal
>> device          ath_rate_sample
> Would you please file a PR for that and email me the PR number?
PR as :kern/152736
> Thanks,
>
>
> adrian



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