Re: Freebsd 8.0 ath, Soekris 4511, tinybsd, IRQ storm. More Updates

For what its worth, I have 2 Acer laptops with the same ath cards,
without a problem.


On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Jose Amengual M <pepe_at_rdc.cl> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Today I was testing Again the ATH card with the same motherboard but in
> FreeBSD 7.0.
>
> I get exactly the same problem of the irq storm but at least I can use the
> card after change :
>
> sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold=10000 ( or more)
>
> But if you try to do anything with the wireless card the console or ssh or
> telnet hang up until the transmission is finish, after you finish playing
> with the wireless card everything is back to normal, so definitely a high
> storm_threshold is not the solution.
>
> I will try the same wireless card in a Acer Laptop with freebsd 7.0 and 8
> and I will update the results.
>
> We want to use FreeBSD for more than 100 Radios, so this could be a enormous
> Live-Lab :)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> On 2-Jun-08, at 10:47 PM, Jose Amengual M wrote:
>
>> I'm the only one with this problem ?
>>
>> Any help ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On 26-May-08, at 12:43 PM, Jose Amengual M wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys.
>>>
>>> I'm working with FreeBSD 8.0 current using tinybsd to make a image for my
>>> Soekris 4511 box.
>>>
>>> The build image is ok and the system boot up perfect, It detect all the
>>> network cards includin the ath0 that is a 400 mw NMP-8602 PLUS.
>>>
>>> In the moment that I do :
>>>
>>> ifconfig wlan create wlandev ath0
>>> ifconfig wlan up
>>>
>>> I'm reciving this :
>>>
>>> interrupt storm detected on "irq11:"; throttling interrupt source
>>>
>>> and is only when I take up the wlan0 interface, if I don't do anything
>>> with the ath0 card, the system works perfect.
>>>
>>> I search in the net for an info and I found a lot of information about
>>> how to build FreeBSD in Soekris boxes, kernel conf files, etc, but nothing
>>> about this caind of problem in version 8.0.
>>>
>>> My vmstat -i is :
>>>
>>> tinybsd# vmstat -i
>>> interrupt                          total       rate
>>> irq0: clk                         170695        490
>>> irq4: sio0                          1993          5
>>> irq8: rtc                          43697        125
>>> irq9: sis1                           392          1
>>> irq11: ath0                        32626         93
>>> irq14: ata0                        16261         46
>>> Total                             265664        763
>>>
>>> my pciconf -lv is :
>>>
>>> tinybsd# pciconf -lv
>>> hostb0_at_pci0:0:0:0:      class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x30001022
>>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>>  class      = bridge
>>>  subclass   = HOST-PCI
>>> cbb0_at_pci0:0:9:0:        class=0x060700 card=0x00000000 chip=0xac50104c
>>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x02
>>>  class      = bridge
>>>  subclass   = PCI-CardBus
>>> ath0_at_pci0:0:16:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x2062168c chip=0x001b168c
>>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>>  class      = network
>>>  subclass   = ethernet
>>> sis0_at_pci0:0:18:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x0020100b chip=0x0020100b
>>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>>  class      = network
>>>  subclass   = ethernet
>>> sis1_at_pci0:0:19:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x0020100b chip=0x0020100b
>>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>>  class      = network
>>>  subclass   = ethernet
>>>
>>>
>>> My dmesg with ath part :
>>>
>>> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 11 at device 16.0 on
>>> pci0
>>> ath0: [ITHREAD]
>>> ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>>> ath0: mac 10.5 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
>>> sis0: <NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe100-0xe1ff mem
>>> 0xa0020000-0xa0020fff irq 5 at device 18.0 on pci0
>>> sis0: Silicon Revision: DP83816A
>>>
>>>
>>> I can send more information if is needed.
>>>
>>> I already change the wireless card ( I have for of the same) and the
>>> matherboard, I upgrade the bios of the Soekris board to 1.38.
>>>
>>> Any ideas about the irq storm ?
>>>
>>> any special configurations ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Jose Amengual.
>>>
>>>
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