Re: Thinkpad T60 with Atheros working only after restart from Windows

Hello Adrian,

I enabled acpi_ibm.ko but this didn't help and after "halt" the wifi is not
working again.

Regards,

Lyubomir


On 13 June 2013 08:03, Lyubomir Yotov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Adrian,
> I did some tests and discovered that the problem is related to
> "halt"/"shutdown" of system. If "reboot" is carried out than there is no
> problem and the wifi works properly (even if done from Gnome - Gnome seems
> to have no relation to the problem). So what could lead to "ath0: time out"
> after shutting down or halting the system? I noticed that there are irq
> storms on irq 17 which is the wifi irq (interrupt storm detected on
> "irq17:"; throttling interrupt source). Something else that I am not sure
> to have relevance - after shutdown during the start-up ath0 is reported to
> use autoselect mode 11g:
> (below is from dmesg)
>
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>
>         ether 00:19:7e:91:xx:xx
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>         status: associated
>
> After the boot has finished the mode changes to 11a:
>
> #ifconfig ath0
>
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:19:7e:91:xx:xx
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a
>         status: associated
>
> Do you have any idea where to look for now?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Lyubomir
> P.S. I will try to play with acpi_ibm.ko and see if things change if I
> make it auto-load.
>
>
> On 10 June 2013 16:06, Lyubomir Yotov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Adrian,
>>
>> Attached are files with consecutive vmstat -i when the wlan is working
>> (vmstat-i_working.txt) and when the wlan is not working
>> (vmstat-i_not_working.txt). There is also output from ifconfig when the
>> wlan is not working (ifconfig.txt).
>> After some more deeper investigation it seems to me that the problem
>> appears after starting X with Gnome. I will continue investigating with
>> "reboot"/"halt -p" and inform you.
>> BTW do you think that starting Gnome session (using startx, as I haven't
>> set auto start of X if this is of any importance) can cause problems - in
>> Gnome I have no settings for the network in the "System->Network"
>> application and I start it with normal user?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Lyubo
>>
>>
>> On 9 June 2013 18:28, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you please paste the vmstat -i output?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> adrian
>>>
>>> On 9 June 2013 06:53, Lyubomir Yotov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > After restart from Windows and working wireless the number of
>>> interrupts
>>> > increases and the rate increases. After next restart (the ath0 times
>>> out)
>>> > the interrupts increase but the rate is going down.
>>> > I noticed that after restart from Windows and working wifi if I restart
>>> > /etc/rc.d/netif the wifi is working again. If I shutdown wlan0 and
>>> bring it
>>> > up again then I wlan0 doesn't get address but ath0 is not timing out.
>>> I can
>>> > still get a list with the available APs around.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Lyubo
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 8 June 2013 18:28, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hm!
>>> >>
>>> >> Ok, this should be working. I frequently test (read: every other day)
>>> >> with the AR5416. But you're not the first person to report this bug.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Unfortunately when this happens, the interrupts aren't actually making
>>> >> it to the OS.
>>> >>
>>> >> Can you check the output of vmstat -i whilst you're doing it? The ath0
>>> >> counter should be increasing.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> adrian
>>> >>
>>> >> On 8 June 2013 06:49, Lyubomir Yotov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> > Hello,
>>> >> > I have a Thinkpad T60 with dual boot between Windows XP and FreeBSD
>>> >> > 9.1-Release:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > uname -a
>>> >> > FreeBSD T60.workgroup 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826:
>>> Tue
>>> >> > Dec
>>> >> > 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012
>>> >> > [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>> >> > i386
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am trying to use my wifi card which is:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > dmesg
>>> >> > ....
>>> >> > ath0: <Atheros 5416> mem 0xedf00000-0xedf0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0
>>> on
>>> >> > pci3
>>> >> > ath0: AR5418 mac 12.10 RF5133 phy 8.1
>>> >> > ....
>>> >> >
>>> >> > pciconf -lv
>>> >> > ....
>>> >> > ath0@pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x0033168c
>>> chip=0x0024168c
>>> >> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>> >> >     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>> >> >     device     = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter'
>>> >> >     class      = network
>>> >> > .....
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I followed several HOW-TOs in order to make it work. Unfortunately
>>> I it
>>> >> > is
>>> >> > working only after I reboot from my Windows installation
>>> (regardless of
>>> >> > the
>>> >> > position of the wifi switch on the front panel of the notebook).
>>> After
>>> >> > restart from Windows everything is fine - the wifi associates with
>>> the
>>> >> > AP
>>> >> > and I can use it. If I reboot the system during the boot and
>>> afterwards
>>> >> > I
>>> >> > constantly get:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ath0: device timeout
>>> >> >
>>> >> > When I get the device status through ifconfig I can see that ath0 is
>>> >> > associated but wlan0 is not associated.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ifconfig ath0
>>> >> > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>>> mtu
>>> >> > 2290
>>> >> >         ether 00:19:7e:91:xx:xx
>>> >> >         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>> >> >         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>>> >> >         status: associated
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ifconfig wlan0
>>> >> > wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>>> mtu
>>> >> > 1500
>>> >> >         ether 00:19:7e:91:xx:xx
>>> >> >         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>> >> >         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>>> >> >         status: no carrier
>>> >> >         ssid "" channel 5 (2432 MHz 11g)
>>> >> >         regdomain 98 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey
>>> UNDEF
>>> >> >         txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
>>> >> > bgscanidle
>>> >> > 250
>>> >> >         roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming
>>> MANUAL
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > In /var/log/messages I get:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Jun  8 16:39:16 PC wpa_supplicant[3463]: Trying to associate with
>>> >> > 54:e6:fc:ae:xx:xx (SSID='access1' freq=2432 MHz)
>>> >> > Jun  8 16:39:20 PC kernel: ath0: device timeout
>>> >> > Jun  8 16:39:26 PC wpa_supplicant[3463]: Authentication with
>>> >> > 54:e6:fc:ae:xx:xx timed out.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > If I scan for wireless networks I get a list and my ap is in the
>>> list
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ifconfig wlan0 scan
>>> >> > SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
>>> >> > net1      00:11:11:01:xx:xx    6   54M -68:-96  100 EP
>>> >> > 5edf9c          70:71:bc:26:xx:xx   11   54M -68:-96  100 EP   WPS
>>> WPA
>>> >> > WME
>>> >> > access1       54:e6:fc:ae:xx:xx    5   54M -66:-96  100 EP   WPA
>>> HTCAP
>>> >> > WME
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > In rc.local I have:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > wlans_ath0="wlan0"
>>> >> > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>>> >> >
>>> >> > In wpa_supplicant I have:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
>>> >> > eapol_version=2
>>> >> > ap_scan=1
>>> >> > fast_reauth=1
>>> >> >
>>> >> > network={
>>> >> >         ssid="access1"
>>> >> >         psk="secret1"
>>> >> >         priority=5
>>> >> > }
>>> >> > network={
>>> >> >         ssid="access2"
>>> >> >         psk="secret2"
>>> >> >         priority=5
>>> >> > }
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I searched the net for solution to my problem but I couldn't find
>>> one.
>>> >> > Can
>>> >> > you help me with this?
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Regards,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Lyubomir
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