ath0: lot of bad series hwrate and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

[Adrian Chadd]

(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?

> 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?

Thanks,


adrian