[Bug 731576] New: Atheros AR2413 Wireless connection drops out
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731576 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731576#c0 Summary: Atheros AR2413 Wireless connection drops out Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: steinar@megawatt.no QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 The ath5k kernel driver is very unstable with the Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) wireless network interface. Pages never finishes loading, and the interface in general just seems a bit off its expected behavior. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Get a computer with the Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) wireless network interface. 2.Install openSUSE 12.1 3.Connect to the internet with whatever suits your need. Actual Results: The wireless connection isn't working as expected, hangs and is generally unstable. Expected Results: Connect to the internet and just let me browse out of the box. Adding 'options ath5k nohwcrypt=1' to /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf solves the problem. But that shouldn't be necessary in my humble opinion. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Larry Finger
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Nick Kossifidis
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--- Comment #3 from Steinar Løklingholm
Hello Steinar and thanks for your report.
Hi Nick, I'll give this a go and hopefully be able to provide the information you want. I removed the nohwcrypt option and will supply the results and answer your questions the best I can.
a) What dmesg returns when ath5k loads (we need to know the mac revision numbers etc) ?
dmesg | grep ath5k [ 25.040619] ath5k 0000:09:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 25.040703] ath5k 0000:09:04.0: registered as 'phy0' [ 25.654009] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
b) Did you had any problems with ath5k with the same card in the past or is this a new symptom ?
This is actually the first time I've had this card running under openSUSE. Tried it with 11.4, and now with 12.1. Before that this old laptop was running Win XP. As far as I'm aware the ath5k was loaded under both 11.4 and 12.1. So it's mostly been used with wired connection.
c) Can you please check the full lspci -v output for your card, I'm interested on the subsystem id, is it Askey ?
09:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7094 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 22 Memory at c0110000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: ath5k
d) What encryption type are you using ?
WPA2 Personal
e) Can you please do the following test and report your packet loss ?:
ping -M do -s 596 www.google.com
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics --- 57 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 55999ms
ping -M do -s 597 www.google.com
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics --- 27 packets transmitted, 27 received, 0% packet loss, time 26038ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.320/17.526/24.690/1.976 ms -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Andreas Jaeger
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Jeff Mahoney
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--- Comment #5 from Nick Kossifidis
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