Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

[Adrian Chadd]

Well, step #1 would be to run the freebsd-9 ath(4) driver in the later
freebsd version. If you're able to shoehorn that in, let's see if
that's the case.



-a


On 1 August 2014 02:20, Johann Hugo <jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za> wrote:
> Hi
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> Is it possible to disable ANI ?
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> How should we go about to narrow down the problem ?
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> FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT (Looks like crcerr is not updating)
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> mesh-6c9a:~ # athstats -i ath1 anistats -o ani 1
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> input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
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> 2994 248 0 0 18 3 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 54M
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> 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 43 36M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 36M
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> 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 36M
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> 10 1 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 12 2 0 0 11 1 0 0 0 43 12M
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> input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
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> 3230 272 0 0 66 7 0 0 0 44 9M
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> 12 2 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 43 24M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 24M
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> 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 54M
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> input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
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> 3460 290 0 0 79 8 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 54M
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> 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 54M
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> 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 54M
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> FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE
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> mesh-6c9a:~ # athstats -i ath1 anistats -o ani 1
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> input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
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> 1315335 48744 431 0 10204 865 630698 0 0 27 12M
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> 38 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 21 12M
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> 34 1 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 24 12M
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> 28 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 27 12M
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> 44 8 0 0 1 0 13 0 0 23 12M
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> 43 1 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 23 12M
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> 33 1 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 27 12M
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> 36 1 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 22 12M
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> 30 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 26 12M
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> 42 5 0 0 1 0 18 0 0 23 12M
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> 34 3 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 23 12M
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> 32 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 23 12M
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> 31 3 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 25 12M
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> 27 1 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 29 54M
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> 40 2 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 23 54M
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> 40 3 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 21 54M
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> 37 2 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 24 54M
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> 34 1 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 26 54M
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> 44 2 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 24 54M
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> 60 1 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 24 54M
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> 41 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 24 54M
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> input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
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> 1316118 48780 431 0 10206 865 630996 0 0 23 54M
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> 39 1 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 21 54M
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> 42 2 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 22 6M
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> 36 2 0 0 2 0 15 0 0 21 6M
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> 41 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 23 6M
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> 34 1 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 26 6M
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> 30 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 26 6M
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> 36 3 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 22 6M
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> 45 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 0 26 6M
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> 38 3 0 0 2 0 18 0 0 21 6M
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> 38 1 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 25 6M
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> 36 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 20 6M
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> 27 2 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 24 6M
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> 39 1 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 21 6M
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> 40 2 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 23 6M
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> 38 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 24 6M
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> 35 3 0 0 6 1 18 0 0 23 6M
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> 34 1 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 22 6M
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> 48 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 24 6M
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> 35 1 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 24 6M
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> 34 2 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 20 6M
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> input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
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> 1316889 48805 431 0 10216 866 631303 0 0 27 6M
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> 41 1 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 24 6M
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> 28 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 24 6M
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> 36 3 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 23 6M
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> 27 1 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 25 6M
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> 26 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 28 6M
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> 20 1 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 29 6M
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> 40 0 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 27 6M
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> On Thursday 31 July 2014 16:01:56 Adrian Chadd wrote:
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>> On 31 July 2014 14:56, Johann Hugo <jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za> wrote:
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>> > On Thursday 31 July 2014 14:29:55 Adrian Chadd wrote:
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>> >> Hi,
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>> >> Yeah, run athstats 1 on both to see what kind of difference(s) there
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>> >> are in transmit/receive statistics.
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>> >> I wonder if it's changes in the ANI code.
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>> > Forgot to mention that I only see the problem on cards with an Atheros
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>> > chipset and not on older ones with an Atheros 5413 chipset.
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>> Right, but the main changes to the ANI code occured with the 11n HAL,
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>> not with the pre-11n chips.
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>> There's also changes to the initval arrays used in chip
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>> initailisation. That may have changed things.
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>> -a