ath0: device timeout on 9.0-STABLE

Michal Vančo mvanco at di-vision.sk
Wed Jan 25 08:13:29 UTC 2012


Hi,

thanks for your response.

Though there is one more thing. Is my adapter supposed to work in 5GHz band? I'm sure it works in windows and linux. Trying to switch to a different SSID (5GHz one) on the same AP, wlan0 stay unassociated (status: no carrier):

# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether 00:19:7e:52:1c:c4
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
	status: no carrier
	ssid "XXX (5 GHz)" channel 36 (5180 MHz 11a)
	regdomain ETSI2 country SK indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
	privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 17 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6
	scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
	roam:rate 12 wme burst roaming MANUAL
	
# /usr/src/tools/tools/ath/athstats/athstats -i ath0
3245     data frames received
1102     data frames transmit
652      mib overflow interrupts
6M       current transmit rate
116      rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
46       rx failed 'cuz of PHY err
    46       CCK restart
-0/+0    TDMA slot adjust (usecs, smoothed)
23       rssi of last ack
25       avg recv rssi
-96      rx noise floor
1102     tx frames through raw api
1        spur immunity level
1        first step level
14       ANI increased spur immunity
889      ANI enabled OFDM weak signal detect
889      ANI disabled CCK weak signal threshold
10       ANI increased first step level
180060   cumulative OFDM phy error count
1709     cumulative CCK phy error count
113      bad FCS
25       average rssi (beacons only)
32       average rssi (all rx'd frames)
23       average rssi (ACKs only)
Antenna profile:
[0] tx     1056 rx      200
[1] tx        0 rx     3045

With these messages in dmesg:

ar5212StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
AR_CR=0x00000024
AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
ar5212StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
AR_CR=0x00000024
AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020

Michal

On 25.1.2012, at 8:52, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> 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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