Return-path: Received: from server19320154104.serverpool.info ([193.201.54.104]:41746 "EHLO hauke-m.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752687Ab2HYOvO (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:51:14 -0400 Message-ID: <5038E653.9050401@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20120825_165155_084360_BAEF1123) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:50:59 +0200 From: Hauke Mehrtens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Finger CC: Bastian Bittorf , openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, feint@lists.subsignal.org, =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , b43-dev Subject: Re: WRT54g / b43 / mac802.11 BREAKTHROUGH References: <1342612598.5006a476022c6@mail.bluebottle.com> <50350706.609@hauke-m.de> <503528BD.2020302@lwfinger.net> <503549B2.7030900@hauke-m.de> <50354CD2.80306@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <50354CD2.80306@lwfinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/22/2012 11:19 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > On 08/22/2012 04:05 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> On 08/22/2012 08:45 PM, Larry Finger wrote: >>> On 08/22/2012 11:21 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>>> On 07/18/2012 01:56 PM, Bastian Bittorf wrote: >>>>> hi devs! >>>>> >>>>> yesterday we had a breaktrough debugging b43 in our hackspace >>>>> maschinenraum/m18[1,2] >>>>> at weimar.freifunk.net[3,4] - since a long time our darling wrt54g >>>>> suffers from a >>>>> hanging wifi and bad performance[5], but the workaround is easy: now >>>>> it's up to >>>>> you to fix the rootcause. >>>>> >>>>> our testsetup, where we could _reproduce_ reliably a stopping TX is >>>>> like this: >>>>> >>>>> laptop ---lan--- "A"-wrt54g/adhoc ~~~ air ~~~ "B"-anyrouter/adhoc >>>>> >>>>> now make a testdownload with the laptop from B. >>>>> wireless will stop working after ~10 seconds. >>>>> >>>>> wifi up will reanimate and our freifunk-cron.minutely-check >>>>> will do this automagically. (read further, this is not the solution) >>>>> >>>>> we tried to limit the rateset to e.g. lower rates, but this does NOT >>>>> change >>>>> the behaviour. what works is: define a rateset on BOTH router which >>>>> makes >>>>> it impossible to change the band, e.g.: >>>>> >>>>> iw dev $WIFIDEV set bitrates legacy-2.4 1 2 5.5 11 >>>>> OR >>>>> iw dev $WIFIDEV set bitrates legacy-2.4 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54 >>>>> >>>>> now we had a great performance, 10 Gigabytes of wireless transfer, >>>>> no stopping TX anymore and an empty box of beer. three things to do >>>>> now: >>>>> >>>>> 1) why does a band change (can be seen through minstrel) is a problem? >>>>> >>>>> 2) we have to make in config-option to force a band, or a rateset: >>>>> e.g. uci set wireless.radio0.hwmode=11g >>>>> e.g. uci set wireless.radio0.bitrates='6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54' >>>>> >>>>> 3) spread to word: >>>>> there is a great frustration in the community about b43, >>>>> but the old drivers _have_ to die, it's about time - really. >>>>> >>>>> thanks for your work, >>>>> bye storchi, andi, bastian + m18 crew >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://blog.maschinenraum.tk/ >>>>> [2] >>>>> http://blog.maschinenraum.tk/2012/07/15/bitcoin-vending-machine-exchange-euro-coins-for-bitcoin-wallets/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [3] http://wireless.subsignal.org >>>>> [4] http://wireless.subsignal.org/index.php?title=Main_Page_en >>>>> [5] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7552 >>>> >>>> I tried this on some of my devices (BCM4318 G-PHY and BCM4322 N-PHY) >>>> and >>>> it is easily reproducible on all tested devices when restricting the >>>> rates to 11 and 12 MBit/s. >>>> >>>> I have the Broadcom device working as an Access point (on a MIPS SoC) >>>> and a Laptop with an Intel Wifi device is connected to it. I generated >>>> the traffic with iperf. If the Access Points sends the traffic the >>>> problem occurs, if it is just receiving there is not problem. >>>> >>>> After the problem occurred b43_generate_txhdr is called rarely ( every >>>> ~10 seconds) and I am not able to stay connected or connect to the >>>> network any more. I am not familiar with the internal flow in b43 or >>>> mac80211 could someone give me a hint where to look. >>>> >>>> I can not see any special changes between CCK and OFDM rates before it >>>> goes down there are many changes without a problem before it goes down. >>>> >>>> Currently I do not have a Broadcom wifi card running in a x86 device >>>> just mips devices could someone try to reproduce the problem on a x86 >>>> device. >>>> >>>> I added the b43 mailing list and Rafał. >>> >>> Hauke or Bastian, >>> >>> Do you have any info whether the failure occurs with the change from >>> OFDM to CCK, or vice versa? I am wondering if the radio needs a dummy >>> transmission when the switch happens. I will try to put together a patch >>> to test that hypothesis. >>> >>> Larry >> >> It is strange. The stop does not occur directly after changing from OFDM >> to CCK or vice versa. TX seams to still work, but the device does not >> receive anything any more. >> >> Here are some logs from my device: >> http://hauke-m.de/files/b43/wifi-stop/2012-08-22/b43-ap-block.txt >> Patch used: >> http://hauke-m.de/files/b43/wifi-stop/2012-08-22/b43-ap-block.patch >> >> "iw dev wlan0 set bitrates legacy-2.4 11 12" was issued at ~120.000000. >> >> How do I monitor this particular channel with an other wifi card to get >> most of the packages, with aircrack I am unable to set the channel? > > Thanks for the log and the patch you used. > > You should be able to use Kismet and set the channel; however, I usually > let it capture everything, and then use wireshark to analyze the pcap > file. That way, it is fairly easy to set filters to exclude the unwanted > traffic from other AP and STA sources. > > I don't use wireshark to capture the data because the box I use does not > have a GUI desktop, and the command-line kismet is perfect for that setup. > > Larry Hi Larry, I did some further debugging and saw that the driver gets an interrupt indicating some new received frames, but b43_dma_rx does not fetch any new frames. Here are some logs from my device: http://hauke-m.de/files/b43/wifi-stop/2012-08-25/b43-ap-block-2.log Patch used: http://hauke-m.de/files/b43/wifi-stop/2012-08-25/b43-ap-block-2.patch Sometime after 210 my wifi client disconnects from the network. With PIO the AP goes down when trying to connect to it with a wifi client. Hauke