Re: Atheros AR9460 and Acer Aspire V17 Nitro on FreeBSD 11 not working

compile in IEEE80211_DEBUG, then "wlandebug +scan", then do the scan.

I wonder if you're hitting some scan bug where the sheer amount of
traffic going on is causing problems.

Also, seeing RX'ed frames at -130dB is .. oddly wrong for this NIC.
Something odd is going on.


-a


On 20 March 2015 at 11:21, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 March 2015 at 09:52, Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87_at_icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > Recently I had to buy a new computer as my Mac broke down.
>> > I ended up with an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro, which, except for a couple of
>> > problems, is all good.
>> > One of the problems is that wifi does not work. The wifi driver is an
>> > Atheros AR9460.
>> > The problem is that when I attempt to scan for my wireless network,
>> > nothing
>> > shows up at all.
>> > On my previous computer, where I used an external Atheros card,
>> > everything
>> > worked well.
>> > Could the following line from dmesg be a symptom of my problems?
>> > "ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0000"
>> >
>> > I'm using FreeBSD 11-CURRENT with sources updated today.
>>
>>
>> What else does it log?
>
>
> I have this same card on a acer s3 (utltrabook)
>
> _at_adrian this is the one I reported the performance issues but now seems to
> be working ok.
>
> For the record this is with --> r280273
>
> commit d7efe7e99e68d52fa754f4e935814c492d818ece
> Author: pfg <pfg_at_FreeBSD.org>
> Date:   Fri Mar 20 01:07:48 2015 +0000
>
>     Permit multiple arguments for the nonnull attribute.
>
>     This is very useful for non-trivial functions and doesn't
>     affect existing uses.
>
>     MFC after:  5 days
>
> Notes:
>     svn path=/head/; revision=280273
>
>
> I'm noticing something wron with "ifconfig scan" too, it listed fine as a
> normal user, but that's not really re-scanning...
>
> % ifconfig wlan0 scan
> SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> ****       *:1c:68    1   54M -93:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
> ****       *:13:c0    6   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WME
> ****       *:e2:0c    6   54M -83:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
> ****      *:f7:8c    6   54M -109:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
> ****       *:4a:12   11   54M -91:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
> ****      *:13:c4   48   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
>
> Trying with sudo gets in a hanged state...
>
> [user_at_host:/usr/src ]% sudo ifconfig wlan0 scan
> load: 0.17  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 35.72r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
> load: 0.17  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 36.20r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
> load: 0.19  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 187.79r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
> load: 0.19  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 187.94r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
> load: 0.19  cmd: ifconfig 11320 [sbwait] 188.08r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2132k
>
> ^C
>
> but after the ^C as a normal user again and:
> ifconfig wlan0 scan
> SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> *****       *:1c:68    1   54M -94:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
> *****       *:13:c0    6   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WME
> *****       *:e2:0c    6   54M -83:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
> *****       *:f7:8c    6   54M -130:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
> *****       *:4a:12    1   54M -91:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WPS WPA WME
> *****       *:13:c4   48   54M -80:-96  100 EP   RSN HTCAP WME
> ***** ...   *:99:01    6   54M -96:-96  100 E  <------- This is new so it
> re-scanned
>
>
> I see nothing in dmesg
>
>>
>>
>> -adrian
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