Return-path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.226]:32882 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754312AbYIOWFZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:05:25 -0400 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f11so3796232qba.17 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: (sfid-20080916_000529_467240_3136D1B0) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:05:21 -0700 From: "Steven Noonan" To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, wireless , jmalinen@atheros.com, lrodriguez@atheros.com Subject: Re: frustrating ath9k issues In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Steven Noonan wrote: > More recently, I had another incident where it disassociated and > refused to reassociate. I got about 100 of these in my dmesg (fixed by > unloading and reloading ath9k): > > [...] > [ 1279.031033] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 149 (5745Mhz) > flags 0x30142 hal status 4294967277 > [ 1279.031203] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel > [ 1279.323427] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 153 (5765Mhz) > flags 0x50142 hal status 4294967277 > [ 1279.323577] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel > [ 1279.624562] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 157 (5785Mhz) > flags 0x30142 hal status 4294967277 > [ 1279.624687] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel > [ 1279.916441] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 161 (5805Mhz) > flags 0x50142 hal status 4294967277 > [ 1279.916586] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel > [ 1280.207274] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 165 (5825Mhz) > flags 0x10142 hal status 4294967277 > [ 1280.207387] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel > [...] > > And finally, I'm most certainly not getting 802.11n connection speeds > with this driver. The connection speed seems to be about equivalent to > 802.11g (54mb/s), but I can't tell for certain with the messed up > bitrate reporting from iwconfig. > Another incident of the same thing. I let it go a bit longer and it had this: [...] [22558.757888] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 56 (5280Mhz) flags 0x10142 hal status 4294967277 [22558.757917] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22559.048662] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 60 (5300Mhz) flags 0x10142 hal status 4294967277 [22559.048692] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22559.339607] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 64 (5320Mhz) flags 0x10142 hal status 4294967277 [22559.339734] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22559.632215] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 149 (5745Mhz) flags 0x30142 hal status 4294967277 [22559.632261] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22559.922479] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 153 (5765Mhz) flags 0x50142 hal status 4294967277 [22559.922511] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22560.212400] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 157 (5785Mhz) flags 0x30142 hal status 4294967277 [22560.212418] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22560.503130] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 161 (5805Mhz) flags 0x50142 hal status 4294967277 [22560.503149] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22560.795592] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 165 (5825Mhz) flags 0x10142 hal status 4294967277 [22560.795632] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22561.086033] ath_set_channel: unable to reset channel 6 (2437Mhz) flags 0x700e2 hal status 4294967277 [22561.086053] ath9k_config: Unable to set channel [22561.704924] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22561.704970] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22561.875781] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22561.875932] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22562.149045] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22562.149058] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22562.292357] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22562.292386] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22574.671761] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22574.671856] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22579.628460] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22579.629153] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22583.631045] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22583.631076] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open [22587.615757] ath_open: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967277 (freq 2437 flags 0x700e2) [22587.615789] ath9k_start: Unable to complete ath_open