Hi all, I'm just forwarding what Robert said. FreeBSD doesn't have the same interruptions as ath9k does on the AR5416.
I don't have the time to go digging myself just now. On 3 August 2011 05:37, Robert Högberg <robert.hogb...@gmail.com> wrote: > An update to previous mail.. > > I tried the i386 version of FreeBSD 9.0 beta (instead of amd64) and > that one worked much, much better. No network interruptions every 30 > seconds in FreeBSD 9.0 beta 1, but I only ran the test for a few > minutes. Would you expect the noise floor calibrations to happen every > 30 seconds in FreeBSD also or is the interval different there? > > I'll continue investigating. > > (You may want to look into why the ath driver doesn't work on amd64..) > > Robert > > 2011/8/2 Robert Högberg <robert.hogb...@gmail.com>: >> I tried FreeBSD and the computer crashed when I tried to enable the WLAN. >> >> I'm no FreeBSD user so I'm not sure I got things right, but here's what I >> did: >> * Boot FreeBSD from USB stick (WLAN device was detected correctly and >> ath0 created) >> * ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 >> * ifconfig wlan0 up (This caused the computer to freeze. No output, >> and no input possible. I waited minutes but nothing happened.) >> >> I attach dmesg output after boot. >> >> /Robert >> >> 2011/8/2 Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org>: >>> Ah, that it works well in Windows is a good sign. >>> >>> Would you mind doing me a favour? Could you spin up FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1 >>> on a temporary disk (eg a USB thumb drive) and see if it exhibits the >>> same behaviour? >>> >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>> On 2 August 2011 04:19, Robert Högberg <robert.hogb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 2011/7/30 Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org>: >>>>> Have you tried another ath9k NIC? Another AR5416 NIC? >>>> >>>> I've tried an AR9271 NIC (USB ID 0cf3:9271) and it works very well. I >>>> only have one AR5416 NIC to test I'm afraid. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Is it possible this NIC is slightly weirdly damaged? >>>> >>>> Maybe, but the card works well with the Windows 7 drivers. But I guess >>>> it's possible that the noise floor calibration functionality is >>>> broken/problematic on this card and the Windows driver knows this and >>>> avoids or adapts to the problem. After all, I don't see any problems >>>> with the calibration disabled so maybe the Windows driver doesn't use >>>> the calibration either. But I don't know.. >>>> >>>> TP-Link has released a v2 version of this TL-WN851N NIC (I'm using v1) >>>> which suggests the first version may not have been perfect. Maybe v1 >>>> was "weirdly damaged" and they fixed it in the second version. I don't >>>> know what the differences are between the two versions, but I think >>>> they used AR5416 in both versions. >>>> >>>> Robert >>>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
