Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:41901 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752370AbZJ2NF7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:59 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: ath5k AP issues Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:06:01 +0100 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Luis Rodriguez References: <200910291330.26172.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: <200910291330.26172.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200910291406.03422.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 29 October 2009 13:30:24 Michael Buesch wrote: > Attached is a wireshark log. Let me explain what you see in there: > > I have an ath5k AP and the powersaving n810 device as STA. > What I try to do is ping the n810. You can see that at the start of the log. > > Packet #31 is a ping to the n810. #42, too. and so on... > You see that the n810 does not reply. (not even with an 802.11 ack) > I guess the n810 is in PS at that time. > Also note that the TIM sent by the AP is empty. > > What I did at #135 is _simultaneously_ ping from the n810 to the ath5k. > At that point suddenly both pings running on both ends start to succeed. > > This is with a vanilla 2.6.31.5 kernel, but I can also reproduce this with > compat-wireless and compat-wireless-stable. > This is dmesg log with verbose PS debugging enabled. [265617.902457] phy0: Allocated STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 [265617.903187] phy0: Inserted STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 [265620.539771] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 enters power save mode Here I start pinging the n810. No dmesg messages appear and pinging does not work. When I start pinging _from_ the n810, the following messages appear: [265660.078055] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 exits power save mode [265660.078066] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 sending 0 filtered/0 PS frames since STA not sleeping anymore [265660.289206] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 enters power save mode [265660.938988] STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1: PS buffer (entries before 0) [265660.985997] STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1: PS Poll (entries after 0) [265660.986016] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 in PS mode, but pspoll set -> send frame [265661.008310] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 exits power save mode [265661.008321] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 sending 0 filtered/0 PS frames since STA not sleeping anymore [265661.226915] wlan0: STA 00:1d:6e:9b:c5:a6 aid 1 enters power save mode -- Greetings, Michael.