ath(4) with Atheros 5416 Mini-PCI problems leading to reboots

Hi,

Has anyone got the ath(4) driver working with the Atheros 5416 card and is
it stable?
I am running FreeBSD 7.0 (stable) with the hal patch from
http://people.freebsd.org/~sam.

The symptoms are that it will startup fine on reboot very quickly I get the
channel 6 reset message as below followed by the device timeout messages.
After that happens all I can do is down the card.

 so I get the following in dmesg

> dmesg snip <
ath0: <Atheros 5416> mem 0xfcfe0000-0xfcfeffff irq 17 at device 20.0 on pci0
ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfcfe0000
ioapic0: routing intpin 17 (PCI IRQ 17) to vector 56
ath0: [MPSAFE]
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: hal channel 2412/a0 -> 1
ath0: hal channel 2412/c0 -> 1
ath0: hal channel 2417/a0 -> 2
ath0: hal channel 2417/c0 -> 2
ath0: hal channel 2422/a0 -> 3
ath0: hal channel 2422/c0 -> 3
ath0: hal channel 2427/a0 -> 4
ath0: hal channel 2427/c0 -> 4
ath0: hal channel 2432/a0 -> 5
ath0: hal channel 2432/c0 -> 5
ath0: hal channel 2437/a0 -> 6
ath0: hal channel 2437/c0 -> 6
ath0: hal channel 2437/d0 -> 6
ath0: hal channel 2442/a0 -> 7
ath0: hal channel 2442/c0 -> 7
ath0: hal channel 2447/a0 -> 8
ath0: hal channel 2447/c0 -> 8
ath0: hal channel 2452/a0 -> 9
ath0: hal channel 2452/c0 -> 9
ath0: hal channel 2457/a0 -> 10
ath0: hal channel 2457/c0 -> 10
ath0: hal channel 2462/a0 -> 11
ath0: hal channel 2462/c0 -> 11
ath0: hal channel 2467/a0 -> 12
ath0: hal channel 2467/c0 -> 12
ath0: hal channel 2472/a0 -> 13
ath0: hal channel 2472/c0 -> 13
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: bpf attached
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:8e:15:6e:63
ath0: bpf attached
ath0: bpf attached
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 13.10 phy 8.1 radio 13.0
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
 
Eventually I get 

ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 6 (2437 Mhz, flags 0x490 hal
flags 0x150), hal status 12
ath0: device timeout
ath0: device timeout
ath0: device timeout
ath0: device timeout


Occasionally it will report an 'rx: FIFO error' but not this time :) anyways
once it has reported 'device timeout'
The only thing you can do is reboot the box.

My athstats follows, this is after a reboot and it locking out after a few
minutes of no actual use:

nas# athstats
23 data frames transmit
0M current transmit rate
1 watchdog timeouts
57 tx management frames
270 tx frames discarded prior to association
80 tx frames with no ack marked
16 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
171 rx failed 'cuz of PHY err
    43 OFDM timing
    128 CCK timing
20 periodic calibrations
-128 rssi of last ack
6 avg recv rssi
-96 rx noise floor
Antenna profile:
[0] tx       67 rx      125

Strange it only see's 1 antenna as I have three attached :(
The interface is configure thus:

ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:0e:8e:15:6e:63
        inet 192.168.50.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.50.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: associated
        ssid sf-bsd channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:0e:8e:15:6e:63
        authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit
        txpower 31.5 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
        roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1


Pciconf shows:
ath0_at_pci0:0:20:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x2071168c chip=0x0023168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device     = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network

sysctl -a grep ath is

hw.ath.hal.swba_backoff: 0
hw.ath.hal.sw_brt: 10
hw.ath.hal.dma_brt: 2
hw.ath.hal.version: 0.9.30.13
hw.ath.txbuf: 200
hw.ath.rxbuf: 40
hw.ath.regdomain: 0
hw.ath.countrycode: 0
hw.ath.xchanmode: 1
hw.ath.outdoor: 1
hw.ath.calibrate: 30
dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5416
dev.ath.0.%driver: ath
dev.ath.0.%location: slot=20 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.SLT1
dev.ath.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x168c device=0x0023 subvendor=0x168c
subdevice=0x2071 class=0x028000
dev.ath.0.%parent: pci0
dev.ath.0.smoothing_rate: 95
dev.ath.0.sample_rate: 10
dev.ath.0.countrycode: 0
dev.ath.0.regdomain: 48
dev.ath.0.slottime: 9
dev.ath.0.acktimeout: 48
dev.ath.0.ctstimeout: 48
dev.ath.0.softled: 0
dev.ath.0.ledpin: 0
dev.ath.0.ledon: 0
dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700
dev.ath.0.txantenna: 0
dev.ath.0.rxantenna: 1
dev.ath.0.diversity: 0
dev.ath.0.txintrperiod: 5
dev.ath.0.diag: 0
dev.ath.0.tpscale: 0
dev.ath.0.tpc: 0
dev.ath.0.tpack: 63
dev.ath.0.tpcts: 63
dev.ath.0.fftxqmin: 2
dev.ath.0.fftxqmax: 50
dev.ath.0.monpass: 24
dev.ath.0.wake: 0



What else should I be looking at ? Anyone any pointers or suggestions

Rgds

Stuart



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Stuart Fraser