ath0: device timeout on 9.1-RELEASE

[Kamil Szczesny]

Adrian,

Finally, I managed to get again a 9.1-RELEASE running with a recompiled 
kernel.

gomorrha% uname -v
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r246834: Fri Feb 15 18:57:51 CET 2013 
root at gomorrha.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WIFIDEBUG

This is the result of athstats:

gomorrha% /usr/local/bin/athstats -i ath0
32484    data frames received
5130     data frames transmit
3273     mib overflow interrupts
1M       current transmit rate
190      watchdog timeouts
2040     rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
7        rx failed 'cuz of PHY err
     7        CCK restart
-0/+0    TDMA slot adjust (usecs, smoothed)
86       avg recv rssi
-96      rx noise floor
5130     tx frames through raw api
1        first step level
1        OFDM weak signal detect
12       ANI increased spur immunity
10       ANI decrease spur immunity
990      ANI enabled OFDM weak signal detect
2061     ANI disabled OFDM weak signal detect
3041     ANI disabled CCK weak signal threshold
4        ANI increased first step level
2940667  cumulative OFDM phy error count
5258173  cumulative CCK phy error count
74       bad FCS
105      average rssi (beacons only)
84       average rssi (all rx'd frames)
Antenna profile:
[1] tx        0 rx    32484

Is it somewhat helpful?

regards,
Kamil

Am 11.02.2013 20:43, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> Ok..
>
> On 11 February 2013 11:33, Kamil Szczesny <k.s.mail at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Still with 9.0-RELEASE:
>>
>> gomorrha% vmstat -i
>> interrupt                          total       rate
>> irq1: atkbd0                           6          0
>> irq16: ath0 ehci0                   1367         13
>
> .. I can't tell here whether there's any interrupts making it to the
> ath0 device or not.
>
> The driver in -HEAD logs the TX and RX interrupt counts in a ath
> sysctl which I can track.
>
> Can you please compile up athstats and recompile your kernel with:
>
> ATH_DEBUG
> AH_DEBUG
> ATH_DIAGAPI
>
> .. as we will need to establish whether you're actually queuing frames
> to the hardware, whether they're going out, whether the hardware is
> actually completing them, and whether the interrupt is being
> generated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>> irq23: ehci1                         250          2
>> cpu0:timer                          8014         77
>> irq256: em0                          523          5
>> irq258: ahci0                      15444        149
>> cpu1:timer                          2797         27
>> cpu2:timer                          3743         36
>> cpu3:timer                          3053         29
>> Total                              35197        341
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 11.02.13 19:59, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Would you please look at the output of vmstat -i, see if the ath0
>>> device is receiving interrupts?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 February 2013 23:30, Kamil Szczesny <k.s.mail at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> after a downgrade to 9.0-RELEASE the issue remains the same.
>>>> /var/log/messages is spamed by equal authentication timeout entries.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Kamil
>>>>
>>>> Am 10.02.13 20:10, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Would you please try 9.0-RELEASE too?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Adrian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10 February 2013 00:38, Kamil Szczesny <k.s.mail at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm facing a problem with ath0 on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, that was not
>>>>>> existent
>>>>>> on 8.x-RELEASE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The issue seems to be the similar to this one:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-January/065667.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do have the same NIC. pciconf -lv output is equal:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x3a701186 chip=0x0024168c
>>>>>> rev=0x01
>>>>>> hdr=0x00
>>>>>>        vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>>>>>        device     = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter'
>>>>>>        class      = network
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /etc/rc.conf:
>>>>>> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
>>>>>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
>>>>>> network={
>>>>>> ssid="home"
>>>>>> psk="123"
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, it is not starting to work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not have /usr/src/tools/ath so that I can not provide the output.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /var/log/messages is spammed with:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Feb 10 09:08:26 gomorrha wpa_supplicant[1500]: Trying to associate with
>>>>>> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='home' freq=2422 MHz)
>>>>>> Feb 10 09:08:30 gomorrha kernel: ath0: device timeout
>>>>>> Feb 10 09:08:36 gomorrha wpa_supplicant[1500]: Authentication with
>>>>>> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea what might be wrong or how I could fix this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>> Kamil
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