On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:13:40AM +0100, Stefan Krüger wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PC Engines APU board with a Compex WLE200NX miniPCI-e wifi card > running in hostap mode (11g). > > root@apu:/var/log # dmesg | grep athn0 > athn0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9281" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 19 > athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > root@apu:/var/log # ifconfig athn0 > athn0: flags=28843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> mtu 1500 > lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > priority: 4 > groups: wlan > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap > status: active > ieee80211: nwid obsd chan 7 bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx wpakey 0x... > wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp > powersave on (100ms sleep) > inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > It's rather unstable though: > > root@apu:/var/log # zgrep "athn0: device" messages* > messages:Nov 3 01:08:40 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages:Nov 2 00:41:22 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages:Nov 2 02:20:06 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages:Nov 2 03:11:03 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages:Nov 2 19:56:36 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.0.gz:Oct 26 22:06:44 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.0.gz:Oct 27 02:17:05 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.0.gz:Oct 31 11:10:40 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.0.gz:Oct 31 20:48:43 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.0.gz:Nov 1 13:48:04 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.2.gz:Oct 14 18:26:52 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > messages.3.gz:Oct 12 20:35:53 apu /bsd: athn0: device timeout > > I also see constant increasing error counters (even if there's no traffic > visible via tcpdump): > > root@apu:/var/log # netstat -i -I athn0 5 > athn0 in athn0 out total in total out > packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls > 1190195 171127 2642652 4337 0 10759655 171127 8935403 4337 0 > 265 8 1096 0 0 2675 8 1845 0 0 > 129 14 826 0 0 2011 14 1323 0 0 > 630 15 1923 0 0 4696 15 3403 0 0 > 322 14 894 0 0 2319 14 1738 0 0 > 586 18 1244 0 0 3658 18 2956 0 0 > 404 14 437 0 0 2021 14 1916 0 0 > 15 40 13 0 0 548 40 538 0 0 > > Anyone else seeing this? Any idea how I could fix this?
Yes (04/05/2014 BIOS on the APU, same wifi card, a couple of dev timeouts per month, 1.2% errs/packets). No (and not worried about it either). IIRC it wasn't much different on a Soekris net4801 with a different athn card... > Thanks. > > PS: OpenBSD 5.6 amd64, bsd is bsd.mp > --
