Re: [ath9k-devel] performance with ath9k, sparklan WPEA-127N, and Macbook pro

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Farrow
I run a similar set up using a sparklan WPEA-127N on fedora 17 and I am see my stats in /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/netdev:wlan1/stations/54:26:96:cf:1e:a3 but rc_stats is empty. I do have a file called current_tx_rate and the value in there is 117.0 MBit/s After having trouble with my 9

Re: [ath9k-devel] DMA TX Errors

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Farrow
Hi Ben Ok I will try to build your kernel over the weekend or early next week (have a busy schedule this weekend). Will let you know. Cheers Paul On 22.06.2012 11:13, Ben Greear wrote: > On 06/22/2012 07:17 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> Hi Ben >> >> I am currently running

Re: [ath9k-devel] DMA TX Errors

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Farrow
. Thanks again Paul On 22.06.2012 10:08, Ben Greear wrote: > On 06/22/2012 06:17 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> I think you are completely correct from what I have experienced and >> viewed on this forum. Its a shame really. Do you have any >> experience >> of any other cards f

Re: [ath9k-devel] DMA TX Errors

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Farrow
Hi Adrian The errors are the same that I experienced with the other 9280 card. Here is the bug that was reported https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673 some time ago. Tried the power saving stuff before and it didn't work. I have kinda lost the fire in my belly now and have the 93

Re: [ath9k-devel] DMA TX Errors

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Farrow
. Thanks On 15.06.2012 09:21, Peter Stuge wrote: > Paul Farrow wrote: >> Continuation of DMA errors saga... > .. >> Irritated by it and keep thinking it will be fixed - I just cant >> seem to let it go plus the costs are creeping up :( > > No I don't believe these e

[ath9k-devel] DMA TX Errors

2012-06-15 Thread Paul Farrow
Continuation of DMA errors saga... Way back when, I bought a 9380 Sparklan card and it worked fine. And it continues to work fine with my little duo board. But I was getting really bad speeds from it (586kbps) so thought it was because I only had two of the antennas hooked up so decided to bu

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Farrow
I would swap it with the 9280 you bought as I would like to put it in one of my other machines to use the bluetooth capabilities. Also it appeared to behave itself as a client it was only as an AP that I saw the problem. On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:08:44 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > On 03/16/2012 08

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Farrow
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:47:28 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 02/05/2012 04:01 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> Hi Ben >> >> Firstly thanks again for buying that NIC and spending your time on >> it. Yes I basically do a speed test from the wireless device which is >

Re: [ath9k-devel] "Failed to stop Tx DMA" and "Could not stop RX" with AR9485

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Farrow
Hi Felix I would like to try your patch to see if it stops my Tx DMA errors on my AR9280 chipset pcie card. 1. Do you think it might work? 2. What is the best way to apply this patch? Please be gentle with me as I am linux hobbyist and I am keen to get my Tx DMA error problem sorted. Thanks

Re: [ath9k-devel] "Failed to stop Tx DMA" and "Could not stop RX" with AR9485

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Farrow
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:42:35 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2012-03-07 7:37 PM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:29:56 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >>> On 2012-02-29 10:35 PM, Kim Lidström wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> A while ago I h

Re: [ath9k-devel] "Failed to stop Tx DMA" and "Could not stop RX" with AR9485

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Farrow
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:29:56 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2012-02-29 10:35 PM, Kim Lidström wrote: >> Hello! >> A while ago I had a situation where my AR9485 would lock up the >> kernel >> so bad and two very nice guys(Mohammed Shafi and Adrian.. Uhm.. >> Sorry I >> forgot his last name) wer

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-02-05 Thread Paul Farrow
a revision 1 card? Those speeds seem quite slow as I thought it was a 300 Mbps card? Thanks Paul On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:26:55 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/30/2012 10:22 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> Looks good. Just one thing the url in your email to the kernel.org >> we

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Farrow
Looks good. Just one thing the url in your email to the kernel.org website didn't have the bug number in it, so for completeness here it is... https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673 On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:45:40 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/28/2012 08:49 AM, Paul Farr

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Farrow
something wrong around compiling your kernel source :) I can try again tonight and do the lsmod just to make sure I have everything loaded. Will let you know and thanks again for the help Paul On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:14:46 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/25/2012 05:22 PM, Paul Farrow wr

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-25 Thread Paul Farrow
odule and load it? Thanks Paul On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:26:39 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/24/2012 05:04 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> Hi Ben >> >> I used make oldconfig which I guess just uses the config of my >> latest distribution kernel, if I want to use

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-25 Thread Paul Farrow
think this is the problem the make install can't find the drives to install the kernel on. Once I have sorted that problem out I will be good to go. Cheers Paul On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:26:39 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/24/2012 05:04 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> Hi B

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Farrow
I think because my volume names have spaces in them !! Will try to rename my volumes and do it again over the next few nights. Will let you know how it goes. Thanks again Paul On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:40:43 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/23/2012 12:57 PM, Paul Farrow wrote: >>

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Farrow
, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/23/2012 05:18 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> Hi Ben >> >> Thanks for replying and offering to try it on your machine. Perhaps >> the trick is the 64 bit kernel (3.1.9-1.fc16.x86_64.debug) >> - not sure. I have attached hostapd.conf and lspci for

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Farrow
e terminal when connected via the wireless - I suspect it was the same problem but just didn't tell me how it does on the latest distribution Fedora 16. Thanks Paul On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:08:09 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/23/2012 05:18 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> Hi Ben >&

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Farrow
I can certainly look this evening to see if there is anything. On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:29:22 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Paul Farrow wrote: >> The PC is a Jetaway NF93R with a Intel DUO P8700 @ 2.53Ghz, the >> PCI slot is empty and the AR9280 card is in the pci-e slot. > > D

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Farrow
The PC is a Jetaway NF93R with a Intel DUO P8700 @ 2.53Ghz, the PCI slot is empty and the AR9280 card is in the pci-e slot. Attached lspci output as before. On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:01:23 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: Hi Paul, Paul Farrow wrote: The way that I replicate the problem is that I just

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Farrow
nice to get to the bottom of it. Cheers Paul On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:56:07 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Paul Farrow > wrote: >> Hi Ben >> >> Thanks for replying and offering to try it on your machine.  Perhaps >> the >>

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Farrow
n Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:03:39 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: On 01/20/2012 05:25 AM, Paul Farrow wrote: Hi Ben Thanks for getting back to me. Are the AR9380's the ones to use for Access Point functionality? We use them mostly for client mode, but we do test them as access points as well. I'

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Farrow
> Hi Paul, > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Paul Farrow > wrote: >> >> Can any one confirm if they have a working AP with AR9280 card on >> Fedora 16? > > sorry for the very much delayed response > i have got ubuntu 11.10 64 bit on my x86 i could just t

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Farrow
work successfully. Do your kernels have much modifications or are they just copies from kernel.org? Cheers and thanks again Paul On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:30:17 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/19/2012 07:36 PM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> Can any one confirm if they have a working AP

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Farrow
Hi Peter Can you suggest a card? Do you have a working card on Fedora 16 as an access point? Cheers Paul On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:50:59 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Paul Farrow wrote: >> Has any one got any suggestions how I might resolve this problem? > > Get a different

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Farrow
alyze and > debug it now. will definitely take a look at this ASAP, also it > requires some good time to fix this. > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Paul Farrow > wrote: >> >> Hey Mohammed >> >> I hate to be on people especially as its an open source project

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-05 Thread Paul Farrow
an 4, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Paul Farrow > wrote: >> >> Hey Mohammed >> >> I hate to be on people especially as its an open source project but >> did I >> supply you everything that you might need to try to recreate the >> problem? >>  Just want

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2012-01-02 Thread Paul Farrow
K-40] # Customize these for your local configuration... interface=wlan0 hw_mode=g channel=2 ssid=ssid ieee80211n=1 own_ip_addr=192.168.1.15 And uname -r yields 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 Thanks again Paul On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:53:26 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Paul

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Farrow
1 06:10, Paul Farrow > wrote: >> >> Hi Adrian >> >> I believe !!  I had a problem on FC14 using the wifi.  After running >> a >> speedtest the whole machine would go incredibly slow but I must be > > It's quite possible that the errors were just

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Farrow
arErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- On 29 December 2011 06:10, Paul Farrow > wrote: >> >> Hi Adrian >> >> I believe !!  I had a problem on FC14 using the wifi.  After running >> a >> speedtest the whole machine would go incredibly slow but I must be &g

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Farrow
how to get the PCI id? But here is the output from lspci. 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Thanks for any help in advance. Paul On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:07:32 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > On 28 Decemb

[ath9k-devel] Failed to stop TX DMA

2011-12-28 Thread Paul Farrow
Hi I am using an Atheros AR928X Wireless Network card on Fedora Core 16 via hostapd so that I can use it as an access point. I have had the same problem and I think it is documented as an outstanding problem on the compat-wireless page but wanted to confirm that and / or perhaps find out wha