ath0: device timeout on 9.0-STABLE

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

The LED stuff may be a bit broken for 9.0. I'll try to fix it up and
backport the GPIO and LED fixes.


Adrian

On 24 January 2012 23:51, Michal Vančo <mvanco at di-vision.sk> wrote:

> Adrian,
>
> believe or not … it simply started to work. I just left my thinkpad turned
> off during the night and now when I booted, almost everything works as
> expected:
>
> # ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:19:7e:52:1c:c4
>        inet 192.168.0.17 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g
>        status: associated
>        ssid XXX channel 9 (2452 MHz 11g) bssid 10:9a:dd:88:2a:5d
>        regdomain ETSI2 country SK indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
>        privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7
>        scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
>        roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL
>
> # /usr/src/tools/tools/ath/athstats/athstats -i ath0
> 4228     data frames received
> 818      data frames transmit
> 3        tx frames with an alternate rate
> 126      long on-chip tx retries
> 29480    mib overflow interrupts
> 24M      current transmit rate
> 730      tx frames with short preamble
> 210      rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
> 18       rx failed 'cuz of PHY err
>    18       CCK restart
> 10       periodic calibrations
> -0/+0    TDMA slot adjust (usecs, smoothed)
> 37       rssi of last ack
> 37       avg recv rssi
> -96      rx noise floor
> 90       tx frames through raw api
> 1        spur immunity level
> 1        first step level
> 9        ANI increased spur immunity
> 2        ANI decrease spur immunity
> 103      ANI enabled OFDM weak signal detect
> 4        ANI disabled OFDM weak signal detect
> 102      ANI disabled CCK weak signal threshold
> 3        ANI increased first step level
> 7392282  cumulative OFDM phy error count
> 34526    cumulative CCK phy error count
> 20       ANI forced listen time to zero
> 126      missing ACK's
> 291      bad FCS
> 2928     beacons received
> 39       average rssi (beacons only)
> 37       average rssi (all rx'd frames)
> 37       average rssi (ACKs only)
> Antenna profile:
> [0] tx      817 rx       65
> [1] tx        0 rx     4163
>
> I say "almost" because that small WiFi-LED doesn't blink as it should. Is
> there any way to fix this? I see these sysctls:
>
> dev.ath.0.softled: 0
> dev.ath.0.ledpin: 0
> dev.ath.0.ledon: 0
> dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700
>
> but I'm lost with them :)
>
> regards
> michal
>
> On 25.1.2012, at 4:46, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > Sure, can you please:
> >
> > * compile with the following options:
> >
> > options ATH_DEBUG
> > options AH_DEBUG
> > options ATH_DIAGAPI
> >
> > * compile /usr/src/sys/tools/tools/ath/athstats/
> >
> > * run athstats -i ath0 and email them to me +
> freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > On 24 January 2012 04:01, Michal Vančo <mvanco at di-vision.sk> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've installed 9.0-STABLE (also tried on 9.0-RELEASE) on my Thinkpad T60
> and I'm not able to use WiFi. Kernel is GENERIC.
> >
> > pciconf -lv:
> > ath0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x0033168c chip=0x0024168c
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
> >    device     = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter'
> >    class      = network
> >
> > relevant part of rc.conf:
> > wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> > create_args_wlan0="country SK"
> > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> >
> > and wpa_supplicant.conf:
> > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> >
> > network={
> >        ssid="XXX"
> >        psk="XXX"
> > }
> >
> > dmesg just fills with "ath0: device timeout" messages and wifi just
> doesn't work.
> >
> > any clue?
> >
> > regards
> > michal
> >
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