Atheros AR9565

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 8 22:29:13 UTC 2014


hi,

ok. Can you please do a pciconf -lv and attach it here?

Oh. Erm, did you compile a kernel from source? is ATH_ENABLE_11N in your kernel?

Do a 'sysctl dev.ath.0.txagg=1' and then paste the output in dmesg here.



-a


On 8 April 2014 13:38, tzoi516 <tzoi516 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, killed wpa_supplicant and downed wlan0 and ath0. After ifconfig ath0
> up I received a ton of these:
>
> ath0: ath_edma_rxbuf_alloc: nothing on rxbuf?!
> ath0: ath_edma_rxfifo_alloc: Q1: alloc failed: i=0, nbufs=128?
>
> received those about 20 times then this:
>
> ath0: ath_edma_recv_proc_queue: Q1: NULL bf?
>
> And now the top 2 are slowly scrolling.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 04/08/14 16:03, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Right. It sounds like it's not associated.
>>
>> Try wlandebug +assoc and then run wpa_supplicant
>>
>>
>> -a
>>
>>
>> On 8 April 2014 12:21, tzoi516 <tzoi516 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry for another email, the errors are sporadic. I'm trying to find the
>>> ioctl errors that I get on shutdown.
>>> These are after logging in:
>>>
>>> ath0: ath_edma_recv_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping
>>> dhclient[1001]: send_packet: Invalid argument
>>> dhclient[1001]: send_packet: No buffer space available
>>> ath0: ath_edma_recv_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping
>>> dhclient[1001]: send_packet: No buffer space available
>>> dhclient[1001]: send_packet: Invalid argument
>>> dhclient[1001]: send_packet: Network is down
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 04/08/14 14:38, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>> Ah. Can you post the buffer errors you're seeing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8 April 2014 11:37, tzoi516 <tzoi516 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 04/08/14 14:23, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>>>> It should work fine on -10 and HEAD. Is it not working fine?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -a
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8 April 2014 09:12, tzoi516 <tzoi516 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a Toshiba Satellite S55-A5169
>>>>>>> This specific one:
>>>>>>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1024074-REG/toshiba_pskk6u_08c08t_s55_i7_4700mq_12gb_1tb_windows_8_1_15_6_silver.html)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It has the Atheros combo Wi-Fi/NIC, and the Wi-Fi uses the AR9565. For
>>>>>>> it to work I have to change the SATA Controller Mode in the BIOS from
>>>>>>> "AHCI" to "Compatibility". I don't know if this information helps, and
>>>>>>> it's the only AHCI setting I can tweak.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mike
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>>>>> With SATA controller mode set to Compatibility then it works, but a
>>>>> little wonky at startup - sometimes I'll have to run wpa_supplicant -i
>>>>> wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Infrequently a buffer error appears.
>>>>> With SATA controller mode set to AHCI then I can ifconfig wlan0 list
>>>>> scan and see available networks but I can't connect to any except for
>>>>> unprotected networks.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently running FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>


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