Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0
Johann Hugo
jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za
Thu Jul 31 20:05:08 UTC 2014
Hi
After an upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 11.0 I'm losing comms to some of the wifi
clients that worked when I was using FreeBSD 9.0 (long distance links in mesh)
On CURRENT the devices are still showing with list sta, but the idle counter
keeps growing + no comms to them.
FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE
mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta
ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 0 104 0M 9.5 0 421 60496 I A
00:21:a4:35:6c:96 0 104 54M 21.0 0 98 10496 I AQ WME
00:21:a4:35:83:38 0 104 6M 6.5 0 28 448 I AQ WME
00:21:a4:35:83:1b 0 104 9M 8.0 0 4680 37056 I AQ WME
00:80:48:62:e1:0f 0 104 6M 9.5 0 50 47136 I AQ WME
FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT
mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta
ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 0 104 0M 13.5 0 142 38384 I A
00:21:a4:35:6c:96 0 104 54M 22.0 0 11 18048 I AQ WME
00:21:a4:35:83:1b 0 104 6M 8.0 60 0 0 I AQ WME
00:80:48:62:e1:0f 0 104 6M 11.5 30 0 41248 A
00:21:a4:35:83:38 0 104 6M 7.0 60 0 0 I AQ WME
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FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE
mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1 r229528:231308: Wed Nov 27
12:21:54 SAST 2013 root at magrathea.meraka.csir.co.za:/scratch/9-stable-
old/obj/arm.armeb/var/scratch/9-stable-old/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm
dmesg
ath1: <Atheros 9280> irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
[ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
ath1: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan1
wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9
inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9 prefixlen 64
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a <adhoc>
status: running
ssid mesh05 channel 104 (5520 MHz 11a) bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
regdomain NONE country ZA anywhere ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn
privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
txpower 27 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346
bmiss 7
11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
turboA ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
turboG ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
sturbo ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
11na ucast NONE mgmt 12 MCS mcast 12 MCS maxretry 6
11ng ucast NONE mgmt 2 MCS mcast 2 MCS maxretry 6
half ucast NONE mgmt 3 Mb/s mcast 3 Mb/s maxretry 6
quarter ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s
roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s
roam:turboA rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:turboG rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:sturbo rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1
roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1
roam:half rssi 7dBm rate 6 Mb/s
roam:quarter rssi 7dBm rate 3 Mb/s
-pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8
-amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs wme burst -dwds
roaming AUTO bintval 100
AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm
AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm
AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack
cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm
AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack
cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm
groups: wlan
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FreeBSD 11.0
dmesg
ath1: <Atheros 9220> irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
[ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
ath1: AR9220 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
ath1: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r269182M: Mon Jul 28
14:51:06 SAST 2014 root at magrathea.meraka.csir.co.za:/var/scratch/11-
current/obj/arm.armeb/var/scratch/11-current/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm
mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan1
wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9
inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9 prefixlen 64
groups: wlan
ssid mesh05 channel 104 (5520 MHz 11a) bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
regdomain NONE country ZA anywhere ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn
privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
txpower 27 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346
bmiss 7
11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
turboA ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
turboG ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
sturbo ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
11na ucast NONE mgmt 12 MCS mcast 12 MCS maxretry 6
11ng ucast NONE mgmt 2 MCS mcast 2 MCS maxretry 6
half ucast NONE mgmt 3 Mb/s mcast 3 Mb/s maxretry 6
quarter ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s
roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s
roam:turboA rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:turboG rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:sturbo rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1
roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1
roam:half rssi 7dBm rate 6 Mb/s
roam:quarter rssi 7dBm rate 3 Mb/s
-pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8
-amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs wme burst -dwds
roaming AUTO bintval 100
AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm
AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm
AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack
cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm
AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack
cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a <adhoc>
status: running
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
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