Is Atheros AR9285 usable in AP mode ?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Is powerd running?

It does sound like you've got some kind of power saving mode going on
somewhere..

Adrian

On 11 August 2011 21:51, Claude Buisson <clbuisson at orange.fr> wrote:
> Sorry, I had to travel these last days...
>
> On 08/10/2011 07:33, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> is this on a laptop or some device with power saving enabled?
>>
>> Can you please provide some more background about what you are using?
>>
>> Thanks,  adrian
>>
>
> No, this is not a laptop, it is a "mini system" (Atom D525 ION2):
>
> ZOTAC ZBOX I41 (see dmesg below)
>
> and a do not run powerd, etc.
>
> In the (AMI) BIOS there is an "Energy Lake" feature. Disabling it does not
> seems
> to have a noticeable effect.
>
> Disabling HyperThreading in the BIOS seems to have a small positive effect
> on
> the packet loss rate (which remains at the 2-3 % level between station and
> ap).
>
> I am running with hw.ath.bstuck=16 and the "stuck beacon" messages continue
> to flow.
>
> At boot I find a:
>
> power_profile: changed to 'performance'
>
> entry in /var/log/messages, of which I can't get rid (I tried
> power_profile_enable="NO" in rc.conf).
>
> My test station is a 7.4-STABLE, with an 2200B/G iwi hardware, and for the
> moment I run in open mode (for these tests).
>
> On the other hand, I don't have any problem/loss running the ZBOX as a
> station
> with my current access point (6 years old Netgear WG602v3) in WPA2 mode.
>
> I can do furter tests at your will, if given sufficiently precise guidance.
>
> Claude Buisson
>
>> On 07/08/2011, Claude Buisson<clbuisson at orange.fr>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I try to configure a new system as an access point, with:
>>>
>>> ath0:<Atheros 9285>  mem 0xfeaf0000-0xfeafffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on
>>> pci2
>>> ath0: AR9285 mac 192.2 RF5133 phy 14.0
>>>
>>> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01
>>> hdr=0x00
>>>       vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>>       device     = 'AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
>>>       class      = network
>>>
>>> According to the sticker, it is a:
>>>
>>> AzureWave AW-NE785 ATH-5B95
>>>
>>> I get a lot of:
>>>
>>>    ath0: stuck beacon: resetting (bmiss count 4)
>>>
>>> I set  hw.ath.bstuck=32
>>>
>>> but the stuck beacon messages continue flowing, and I suffer from packet
>>> loss /
>>> lost association of the test station.
>>>
>>> This is on a 9-CURRENT system amd64 SMP (2011/07/24 svn r224294).
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> CBu
>>>
>>> P.S.: to prevent a number of useless questions (as seen when googling): I
>>> live
>>> in the country, with _no_ other wireless network in the vicinity :-)
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>>
>