On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:23:47AM -0400, kbenjamin Coplon wrote: > On 6/8/14, kbenjamin Coplon <mr.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using an ALIX board with a WLM200NX as a 802.11g access point > > using OpenBSD 5.5. > > It works great for a while until i get "athn0: device timeout" a few > > times, then it stops working until i reboot it. > > The athn man page says: > > " athn0: device timeout A frame dispatched to the hardware for > > transmission did not complete in time. The driver will reset the > > hardware. This should not happen." > > > > That last line makes me think i've found a bug.
Perhaps, and it could be a bug in the hardware, firmware, or driver. So that message alone doesn't help with narrowing it down to anything. > > I'm sorry i don't know whether this is the right place to ask, i > > didn't see any offcial OpenBSD noob list, > > if this is the wrong place please point me in the right direction. > > > > Thank you > > passstab > > > > I've tried fw_update which didn't help. > > here is dmesg > athn0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Atheros AR9280" rev 0x01: irq 9 > athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address 04:f0:21:0e:84:6a I have a very similar athn model in a soekris net5501 and I'm also seeing this message in the logs very occasionally. However in my case a reboot doesn't seem to be necessary to recover. athn0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Atheros AR9280" rev 0x01: irq 15 athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 16, address 00:0e:8e:24:52:7d Jun 9 21:09:29 dougal /bsd: athn0: device timeout This AP works fine as I'm writing this, with no reboot in between. Does it self-heal if you wait longer after it happened? Have you tried re-associating the client (i.e. ifconfig down; ifconfig up; dhclient, on the associated device) instead of rebooting the AP? Do you know of a way of triggering the message at will?
