I modified the source to force the tx power up, and signal level stays high, and the rate does not drop below 54Mb/s, but... throughput still remains low, and after rx of around 400-500kb of data I get a kernel panic, entire system locked up, just capslock flashing.
Any suggestions on how to catch the oops details, I reboot but they have not appeared in the logs, it must be crashing so hard that the kernel does not get a chance to write them out. On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:19 +1100, Geoffrey McRae wrote: > Patched, compiled and running with it now... > > Throughput is still very low, however iwconfig is now reporting I am > connected at 54Mb/s. > > This is the dmesg output on start up: > > [ 87.909863] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LK4E] -> GSI 19 > (level, low) -> IRQ 19 > [ 87.909873] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ 87.909914] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0' > [ 88.046028] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: > 0x70) > [ 140.082083] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > [ 141.272900] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2417MHz) > [ 160.444529] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2417MHz) > [ 188.740597] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2427MHz) > [ 189.506135] wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800af401a20 > [ 189.562507] wlan0: authenticated > [ 189.562526] wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800af401a20 > [ 189.571221] wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800b508204a (capab=0x431 > status=0 aid=2) > [ 189.571232] wlan0: associated > [ 189.577802] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > [ 190.448767] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2417MHz) > [ 191.400925] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2412MHz) > [ 200.561021] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present > [ 260.308977] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2417MHz) > [ 260.511082] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2427MHz) > [ 269.820015] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2412MHz) > [ 320.304633] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2417MHz) > [ 379.820014] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration failed (2412MHz) > > Also, the signal strength is very low even though I am only 1m from the > AP. > > I also had a kernel panic after I first loaded the driver and started to > xfer a large file, capslock was flashing, but no error in > dmesg/syslog/debug logs. > > -Geoff > > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 03:07 +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > > 2009/3/12 Geoffrey McRae <ge...@rabidhost.com>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have a laptop with an AR2425 in it, which the latest compat-wireless > > > works great on, all except for the throughput. > > > > > > If I leave the rate to auto, it seems to settle at 36M, but if I force > > > it to 54M, I loose all RX/TX, even though I am less then one meter from > > > the AP. > > > > > > > Try the latest series on tx power posted here and see if it fixes > > throughput ;-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > ath5k-devel mailing list > ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org > https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
