Description of problem: When using ath5k driver on an Atheros AR2413 driver network access is intermittent. Presuming that packets are being dropped/lost. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11 with kernel 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE How reproducible: Everytime by just connecting and attempting to access network. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable wireless networking 2. Tried to access websites or ssh to other server - works occasionally Actual results: Access works occasionally - if it does, slowly. Expected results: Works seemlessly. Additional info: On Fedora 10 with madwifi drivers worked fine. Running lspci | grep Atheros gives: 09:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Will attempt building madwifi for Fedora 11 to see if it makes a difference.
I seem to have the exact problem with my AR928X card.
Can you provide wireless traces using wireshare (or equivalent) on another box?
Not sure what 'wireshare' is - did you mean wireshark? If so I will get out another box this weekend with wireless and try and gather some data. For reference, the madwifi drivers work fine on the same box.
wireshark -- sorry, typo!
try checking with iwconfig to see if your wlan card is doing a network scan while you see the connection stall. This is the problem I am seeing. If this is the case, I think there was another bugzilla thread on this (but I can't find it now). I remember that there someone was saying that things should get better in 2.6.31 kernel. I am running F12 beta witth 2.6.31 and I can see that things got better but I still occasionally see that the connection stalls. I have: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
I'm seeing similar problems with 2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686 in an Acer notebook that has 'Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)'. When the network connection dies, I see the following in dmesg: wlan0: no IPv6 routers present wlan0: deauthenticated wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:16:b6:da:8a:44 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:16:b6:da:8a:44 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:16:b6:da:8a:44 (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:16:b6:da:8a:44 - assume out of range
The problem still persists on up to date FC12 with 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE. Really annoying problem. Is there any way to forbid networkmanager for doing a scan? (I am guessing it is the networkmanager doing this)
Can you try one of the later stable releases? http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable
With compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc1 things are much better (didn't try earlier ones): 248 packets transmitted, 246 received, 0% packet loss, time 248215ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.844/14.598/225.449/40.783 ms The worst response times used to be 1000 - 3000 ms. The response occasionally goes to abt 200 ms for some individual packets. Great improvement!
Would be great if we could get a fix for this for current kernels. Recent kernel upgrade took things back to the old problem and had to reinstall wireless-compat again.
Jussi, F12 will hopefully soon get a 2.6.32-based kernel as an update. You can give kernel-2.6.32.4-30.fc12 a try, get it from Koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=152350 If it fixes the problem, we just need to wait for the update to be done. If it does not fix the problem, we'll need to identify which patches between 2.6.32 and 2.6.33-rc1 are needed. I'll make a test kernel build with some likely candidates applied if necessary.
With 2.6.32.4-30.fc12.i686.PAE the behavior is different. The response times do not go occasionally but it drops packets completely: 1714 packets transmitted, 1605 received, 6% packet loss, time 1716024ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.782/2.795/1378.196/34.484 ms, pipe 2 I was pinging my basestation. With the compat-wireless that I mentioned above this did not happen. So something is still not quite right.
Jussi, could you download this kernel: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.32.7/39.fc12/i686/kernel-PAE-2.6.32.7-39.fc12.i686.rpm and this tarball with several built ath5k modules with picked patches from 2.6.33-rc1: http://michich.fedorapeople.org/bz506372/ath-2.6.32.7-39.fc12.i686.PAE.tar.xz Install the kernel and test it. The expected result is the same as in your comment #12. Then unpack the tarball where you'll find several directories called "ath-$number". In every one of these there are module files ath5k.ko and ath.ko. Try using each pair of the modules and observe which one fixes the bug: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop rmmod ath5k rmmod ath cd ath-$number insmod ath.ko insmod ath5k.ko /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start (test) Please try ath-33 first. It corresponds to the version from 2.6.33-rc1, so it is expected to work. Then do a binary search through the lower numbered ones to find which is the first good one.
Well, ath-33 does not work the same way as the compat stuff did. In fact it hardly works at all. Pinging my base station gives: 115 packets transmitted, 95 received, 17% packet loss, time 114932ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 78.118/89.205/297.613/36.288 ms With the standard ath5k in kernel 2.6.32.7-39.fc12.i686.PAE I got: 301 packets transmitted, 277 received, 7% packet loss, time 300757ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.183/1.495/4.325/0.371 ms Should I try the latest compat-wireless with this particular kernel again?
Interesting... I unloaded and loaded the drivers again and I see different behavior (not correct either...): 120 packets transmitted, 100 received, 16% packet loss, time 119324ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.217/1.560/2.831/0.391 ms Packet loss is about the same but the response time is smaller. Also, this is what I see in dmesg (if it helps..): ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy5' ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65 ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 ath: Regpair used: 0x65 phy5: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' ath5k phy5: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa3, PHY: 0x61) Quick test also showed that none of the smaller number ath's helped in reducing the packet loss either.
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