On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:03:24AM +0000, Peter Kay wrote: > On 12 January 2017 at 15:06, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:27:47AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:54:55PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >> > This diff adds 11n support to the athn(4) driver. > >> > Requires -current net80211 code from today. > >> > I'm now getting some very odd issues that did not previously exist > with my hostap before upgrading to the snapshot and applying the > patch.
It seems you have a 2GHz only card according to https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros and what you wrote earlier: "Hardware MAC AR5416 rev 2, RF AR2133 (3T2R), ROM rev 5 (PCI adapter)" So your first test might not have had 11n enabled since the first two versions of my patch had a bug where 11n was left disabled on 2GHz only devices. Please check with 'ifconfig media athn0' whether 11n mode is actually supported. > Phone complains about an 'authentication problem', iwn laptop with > issues about buffer space and then associates with a different ap. > There's nothing in the logs and a reboot is required. > > At first I thought it was a clock problem, because I found my firewall > clock was somehow a month ahead, but after correcting that the second > time it occurred the time was ok. > > Going to have to revert to snapshot without the 11n patches and see if > the issue persists. Unfortunately it takes a while to manifest itself. What does your /etc/hostname.athn0 file look like? Please specify 'mode 11n' in your /etc/hostname.athn0, and also fix the channel with a line such as 'chan 1'. There are known problems otherwise. For reference, this is what I am using: media autoselect mode 11n mediaopt hostap chan 10 nwid stsp.name wpakey xxxxxxx up (There is no line configuring an IP since my athn0 is part of a bridge.) Apart from that there are known performance issues on 2GHz. I have always had bad performance from athn(4) on 2GHz, even in 11g mode. Currently my 2GHz AP effectively transmits no more than 500Kbit/s. But is runs stable apart from that. It is unclear where this problem is coming from. Until now I wasn't sure whether this is problem is specific to my environment or not (there are a lot of 2GHz networks around here). It does not seems to be the case since by now several people have reported this problem. It seems the driver works a lot better with 5 GHz devices and lacks something specific to the 2GHz ones.
