CURRENT: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

[Adrian Chadd]

I think you're going to be .. unhappy with what Intel's firmware is
like as an AP.

I still have to chase down why the AR9287 stalls and do a full chip
reset when it goes RX deaf. I'm just chasing down other things at the
moment.


-a


On 3 October 2014 06:33, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:15:54 +0200
> Erik Trulsson <Erik.Trulsson.1013 at student.uu.se> schrieb:
>
>> Quoting "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
>>
>> > Since a couple of days I get this weird console-and-log-spamming message:
>> >
>> > ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
>> >
>> > The machine in question is running the most recent CURRENT right now:
>> >
>> > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r272471: Fri Oct  3 13:03:58 CEST 2014 amd64
>> >
>> > and the box acts as a gateway with WiFi access point via hostapd and
>> > this WiFi hardware:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> > ath0: <Atheros 9287> mem 0xf7e00000-0xf7e0ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
>> > ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
>> > ath0: [HT] enabling short-GI in 20MHz mode
>> > ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
>> > ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
>> > ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
>> > [...]
>> > ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
>> >
>> > What is this and how can I get rid of it?
>>
>> It means that you have run into a well-known and long lasting hardware
>> bug in Atheros Wifi chipsets, where they sometimes get stuck and stops
>> sending out beacons.
>> You get that message when the device driver detects that this has
>> happened and resets the chip to get things going again.
>>
>> There is, AFAIK, no way of making sure the problem cannot happen, but
>> you might be able to reduce the frequency of it happening by reducing
>> the amount of interference you receive from other wireless devices.
>
> Ah, I understand, so nothing to worry about. The WiFi NIC is a cheap TP Link facility.
> Hopefully, FreeBSD will have support for Intel's Dual Band 7260-chipset this decade, so
> the problem will be gone anyway (except Intel put also nice hardware bugs into their
> silica ...).
>
>
> oh