Re: ath(4) now defaults to 802.11n on GENERIC/i386 and GENERIC/amd64

From: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:02:07 +0200
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 15 June 2012 05:23, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But I am having a problem with athsurvey which is just reporting:
>>
>>         min                   avg                   max
>>  tx%  rx%  bc%  ec%    tx%  rx%  bc%  ec%    tx%  rx%  bc%  ec%
>> (100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0) ( 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0) ( 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0)
>> (100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0) ( 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0) ( 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0)
>
> Ah. AR5416 and later only. :)

so sad :(

is it a limitation of 5414? (Yes FreeBSD thinks its 5413, but on the
chip it says 5414A-001 :P)

>
>> athdebug is returning with:
>> athdebug: sysctl-get(dev.ath.0.debug): Cannot allocate memory
>
> No ATH_DEBUG? Are you building a module?

No its built in in the kernel, This is my kernel:

#
# AR71XX -- Kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/MIPS for Atheros 71xx systems
#
# This includes all the common drivers for the AR71XX boards along with
# the usb, net80211 and atheros driver code.
#
# $FreeBSD$
#

machine		mips mips
ident		AR71XX_BASE
cpu		CPU_MIPS4KC
makeoptions	KERNLOADADDR=0x80050000
options		HZ=1000
options		HWPMC_HOOKS

files		"../atheros/files.ar71xx"

# For now, hints are per-board.

hints		"AR71XX_BASE.hints"

makeoptions	DEBUG=-g		#Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols

# Build these as modules so small platform builds will have the
# modules already built.
makeoptions	MODULES_OVERRIDE="random gpio ar71xx if_gif if_gre
if_bridge bridgestp usb wlan wlan_xauth wlan_acl wlan_wep wlan_tkip
wlan_ccmp wlan_rssadapt wlan_amrr ath ath_pci"

options		DDB
options		KDB

options		SCHED_4BSD		#4BSD scheduler
options		INET			#InterNETworking
options		INET6			# IPv6

# options		NFS_CL		#Network Filesystem Client

options		PSEUDOFS		#Pseudo-filesystem framework
options		_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions

# options		NFS_LEGACYRPC
# Debugging for use in -current
options		INVARIANTS
options		INVARIANT_SUPPORT
options		WITNESS
options		WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
options		DEBUG_REDZONE
options		DEBUG_MEMGUARD

options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
# options         SOFTUPDATES             #Enable FFS soft updates support
# options         UFS_ACL                 #Support for access control lists
# options         UFS_DIRHASH             #Improve performance on big
directories
# options		MSDOSFS			# Read MSDOS filesystems; useful for USB/CF

device		pci
device		ar71xx_pci

# 802.11 framework
options		IEEE80211_DEBUG
options		IEEE80211_ALQ
options		IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH
# This option is currently broken for if_ath_tx.
options		IEEE80211_SUPPORT_TDMA
options		IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE
device		wlan            # 802.11 support
device		wlan_wep        # 802.11 WEP support
device		wlan_ccmp       # 802.11 CCMP support
device		wlan_tkip       # 802.11 TKIP support
device		wlan_xauth	# 802.11 hostap support

# Atheros wireless NICs
device		ath             # Atheros interface support
device		ath_pci		# Atheros PCI/Cardbus bus
options 	ATH_DEBUG
options		ATH_DIAGAPI
options		ATH_ENABLE_11N
options		AH_DEBUG
options		AH_DEBUG_ALQ
options		ALQ
device		ath_hal
option		AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
device		ath_rate_sample
option		AH_RXCFG_SDMAMW_4BYTES
option		AH_AR5416_INTERRUPT_MITIGATION
# There's no DFS radar detection support yet so this won't actually
# detect radars.  It however does enable the rest of the channel change
# machinery so DFS can be debugged.
option		ATH_ENABLE_DFS

device		mii
device		arge

device		usb
options		USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC        # handle big-endian byte order
options		USB_DEBUG
options		USB_HOST_ALIGN=32		# AR71XX (MIPS in general?) requires this
device		ehci

device		scbus
device		umass
device		da

# On-board SPI flash
device		spibus
device		ar71xx_spi
device		mx25l
device		ar71xx_wdog

device		uart

device		loop
device		ether
device		md
device		bpf
device		random
device		if_bridge
device		gif		# ip[46] in ip[46] tunneling protocol
device		gre		# generic encapsulation - only for IPv4 in IPv4 though atm

options		ARGE_DEBUG	# Enable if_arge debugging for now

# Enable GPIO
device		gpio
device		gpioled


>
>
> adrian



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Monthadar Al Jaberi
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