Wifi no longer working after upgrade to 2.3.1

pvoigt

Today I have finished a fresh full installation of pfSense 2.3.1 (amd64) on an mSATA of an apu1d4. The installation worked as expected and I could manually reinstall the needed nut package without any issues.

Unfortunately, my wifi card stopped working, e.g. the dashboard shows the wlan interfaces are down. Indeed, I have cloned the interface to have to SSIDs "wlan" and "wlan2". This setup with exactly the same hardware is working without any trouble with pfSense 2.2.6.

My WLAN card is a Compex WLE200NX abgn based on an Atheros AR9280 chip: http://www.pcengines.ch/wle200nx.htm

Update: When saving any changes to the interfaces WLAN and WLAN2 I obtain following errors:


ath0: ath_reset_grablock: didn't finish after 10 iterations
ath0: ath_reset_grablock: warning, recursive reset path!
ath0: ath_reset: concurrent reset! Danger!

pvoigt

Update:
Meanwhile I have done numerous tests with my wireless configuration. The good news: It is possible to bring up both wireless clones in a reliable way. Bad news: This usually does not happen on a regular reboot.

I figured out that after a cold or warm reboot at least one of the wireless clones does not start correctly and shows up as "down" in the webGUI. However, it s possible to bring up such a device, if you select the device and just save the settings of this interface without making any changes. Somestimes you have to repeat this step once again but as soon as the interface is up, it is working correctly.

After numerous reboot tests I had approximately one out of 30 attempts where both wireless clones are initialized correctly and show up as "up".

My apu1d4 with a fresh and full installation of version 2.3.2 is online now and I am going to collect further experiences with special focus on the wirless subsystem.

Apart from this wireless issue and a small and meanwhile fixed error with the NUT package (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115760.0) pfSense 2.3.2 leaves a good impression.

Thanks for the good work.

azertypro

Hello,

I have the same bug like you

2.3.2-RELEASE
APU2C4
WLE200NX

I have set up two VAP on my pfsense on the ath0

WIFI ath0_wlan1
WIFI-GUEST ath0_wlan2

After a reboot, my pfsense is looping

Configuring LAGG interfaces...done.
Configuring VLAN interfaces...done.
Configuring QinQ interfaces...done.
Configuring WAN interface...done.
Configuring WIFI interface...
```crashhhhhhhhhh

<118>Configuring WIFI interface...
ath0: ath_reset_grablock: didn't finish after 10 iterations
ath0: ath_reset_grablock: warning, recursive reset path!
ath0: ath_chan_set: concurrent reset! Danger!


After few tests, i have bypass the bug by starting the pfsense on "Safe Mode"

*   Press "space" on the startup menu of pfsense to freeze the menu

*   Press "o" to enter in option

*   Press "m" to activate the "Safe Mode"

*   Press "enter" to laucnh pfsense with your option which you select

NB : if you reboot again, your pfsense will not start in safe mode by default.

I don't know what is the best way to fix it :/

pvoigt

Your experiences sound even worse.

Although my card is showing the same errors and warnings I have never seen them on a regular reboot. They appear on my apu1d4 only, when saving the wireless settings in the webGUI. And luckily I have not had any crash so far.

Is there no chance to bring up your apu2c4 in non-safe, e.g. regular mode?

I am particularly interested in this question because I am thinking about getting an apu2 as well :).

pvoigt

Just a shot in the dark: On the PC Engines homepage I have just read the changlog of the BIOS versions and have found:

Update 1/20/2016: fix miniPCIe IRQ assignments, wle200nx working

Are you running the lastest BIOS version?

azertypro

I have the latest 160311