Kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

danswartz

If you go back to an older snap, does the problem go away? If not, it could just be coincidence. The ath issues are one reason I gave up over a year ago using pfsense for wireless access…

xbipin

around a month and a half backs snap doesnt give the error.

any recommendation on a different brand of wifi card which works flawless?

danswartz

Not really.

bartgrefte

@xbipin:

is it just me with this?

Nope, same problem here with a snapshot-iso (regular install) from a few days a go. Which is gonna be nanobsd eventually, right now I'm just trying to get the card to work.

Using a DWA-552.

edit: I'm not sure how, but I just got rid of the error ??? :)

cmb

@xbipin:

around a month and a half backs snap doesnt give the error.

Then it's voodoo since nothing in the ath driver has changed since we went to FreeBSD 8.1 somewhere around a year ago. :) Nothing in the config really has changed either as there's only one way to set things up, and that's not a config-related condition.

There's a lot of info on this issue in general on FreeBSD lists if you search on it.

My ath cards all work fine, only APs I use, so not sure what to suggest.

the6thday

@xbipin:

is it just me with this?

Same thing here with current i386 snapshots…. (this didn't happen the last time i tested v2 about a month ago...)

"kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)"

cmb

It may be possible this is related to one of our mbuf patches that was reverted and deferred to a future version, I really doubt it as it would likely be universal and cause panics but it's possible, try today's snapshot or newer.

UrbanSk

Hi!
I have had this for a while also.

Try setting hw.ath.bstuck to 8 in system/advanced/system tunables (add new row).

I also added hw.ath.longcal and value 30.

For me WiFi now works better.

/UrbanSk

xbipin

i was surprised to see replies to this thread coz i just stopped getting mails regarding new posts from the forum for some reason.

jimp

@xbipin:

i was surprised to see replies to this thread coz i just stopped getting mails regarding new posts from the forum for some reason.

Looks like the mail queue is backlogged. I'm getting the notifications, they're just extremely slow.

strumf666

For me changing wifi channel worked a few times already (as I get this error from time to time).

bartgrefte

@xbipin:

i was surprised to see replies to this thread coz i just stopped getting mails regarding new posts from the forum for some reason.

Hmm, weird :P

Here it seemed like I just had to choose the right settings, although I haven't got a clue which setting it might have been that solved it…
(About the issue you created this topic for, not the email problem ;) )

xbipin

i was planning to post a bounty to start with $100 and mayb more ppl can contribute to it to make wireless hotspot more robust and alos get rid of these stuck beacon if any1 was willing to complete it.

bartgrefte

Which wifi card are you using btw?

xbipin

Compex WLM54G atheros 5414 chipset but it reports as this:
dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5413

bartgrefte

Hmm…

Well, maybe this bug is fixed in a newer version of the ath(4) driver.
I've been told someone is working on it and also adding N support.

Only I don't know where to get the most recent version of this driver and how to update the one that currently comes with pfSense.

the6thday

same problem here:

kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

hardware is:

kernel: ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xfd8f0000-0xfd8fffff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci5
kernel: ath0: [ITHREAD]
kernel: ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5

Version 2.0-BETA5 (i386)
built on Thu Feb 24 17:17:04 EST 2011</atheros>

xbipin

probably only the devs would know i guess on how and where to get the updated drivers, i would be very much interested in it.

bartgrefte

I asked on the FreeBSD forum, got this:

svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/ath

But does pfSense have svn? Haven't looked at that yet…

might not work if there where changes in the kernel that are needed by the updated driver.

bartgrefte

Installed svn using```
pkg_add -r subversion

Then I used scp to copy over these from my FreeBSD virtual pc because svn needed them.
/usr/lib/libgssapi.so.10
/usr/lib/libheimntlm.so.10
/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.10
/usr/lib/libhx509.so.10
/usr/lib/libasn1.so.10
/usr/lib/libroken.so.10

The svn command downloaded all files from that link. Now have to figure out what to do next.