Bug#659979: ath9k AR9285: Excessive packet loss with 3.2 (worked under 3.1)
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 3.2.4-1
Severity: normal
File: /lib/modules/3.2.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
Under 3.1, the wirless works fine (0% packet loss). Under 3.2, ping
shows 25% packet loss pinging the local gateway. This is repeatable;
each time I boot 3.1, it works, each time I boot 3.2 it doesn't. I have
tried each immediately after the other. Several times over.
iw station dump shows an excessive amount of tx retries (and tx failed)
under 3.2, but not 3.1. Also, under 3.2, the TX bitrate jumps all over
the place; umder 3.1 it stays at 65mbps.
I am attaching the output of
- iw link
- iw station dump
- iw phy
under both 3.1 and 3.2
-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 3.2.0-1-amd64 (Debian 3.2.4-1) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-12) ) #1 SMP Sun Feb 5 15:17:15 UTC 2012
** Kernel log:
[ 20.866445] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH9M-E TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0860)
[ 20.866920] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 20.873141] asus_laptop: Asus Laptop Support version 0.42
[ 20.873457] asus_laptop: UL30A model detected
[ 20.874232] asus_laptop: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver
[ 20.874402] input: Asus Laptop extra buttons as /devices/platform/asus_laptop/input/input5
[ 21.038283] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 21.053866] psmouse serio4: elantech: assuming hardware version 2 (with firmware version 0x040101)
[ 21.090721] psmouse serio4: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x7e, 0x13, 0x0d.
[ 21.229015] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6
[ 21.249614] Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 21.264967] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 21.287019] i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 21.287095] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 21.334913] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 0.3M UVC WebCam (04f2:b036)
[ 21.343141] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 21.343151] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 21.343194] input: USB2.0 0.3M UVC WebCam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/input/input7
[ 21.343308] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 21.343437] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem: owns=io+mem
[ 21.343676] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 21.343745] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[ 21.542033] ath9k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 21.542121] ath9k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 21.555014] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 21.555090] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 21.555184] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 21.555282] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 21.555375] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 21.555473] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 21.555567] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 21.592273] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[ 21.592276] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 21.592282] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 21.592285] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[ 21.715124] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
[ 21.716046] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
[ 21.716058] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9285 Rev:2 mem=0xffffc900110a0000, irq=17
[ 21.743839] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 22.127690] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48
[ 22.135198] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 22.135200] drm: registered panic notifier
[ 22.139481] acpi device:36: registered as cooling_device2
[ 22.139710] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input8
[ 22.139901] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 22.140188] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 22.140347] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 22.140535] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 22.140582] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 22.807625] HDMI status: Codec=1 Pin=3 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0
[ 22.807940] input: HDA Intel HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 22.808538] input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 22.808779] input: HDA Intel Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
[ 24.087357] EXT4-fs (dm-0): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 24.435928] EXT4-fs (dm-0): re-mounted. Opts: barrier=0,acl,user_xattr,commit=300
[ 32.331670] Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected.
[ 32.440474] padlock_sha: VIA PadLock Hash Engine not detected.
[ 33.310007] loop: module loaded
[ 33.764533] Adding 3903484k swap on /dev/mapper/Heisenberg-swap_crypt. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:3903484k
[ 35.703548] EXT4-fs (dm-3): barriers disabled
[ 35.735471] EXT4-fs (dm-3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: barrier=0,acl,user_xattr,commit=300
[ 35.963032] FAT-fs (sda6): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[ 37.272736] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 37.275828] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 37.278965] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 37.282028] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 37.391123] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 37.431331] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[ 37.448192] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[ 38.069790] fuse init (API version 7.17)
[ 39.505770] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 39.517974] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 39.577443] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 40.512748] ACPI Exception: AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Index (0x0000000000000074) is beyond end of object (20110623/exoparg2-418)
[ 40.512764] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.STBR] (Node ffff88013ae7a6f0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110623/psparse-536)
[ 40.512779] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.VGA_.LCDD._BCM] (Node ffff88013ae71ce0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110623/psparse-536)
[ 40.512796] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20110623/video-364)
[ 40.513402] ACPI Exception: AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Index (0x0000000000000074) is beyond end of object (20110623/exoparg2-418)
[ 40.513415] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.STBR] (Node ffff88013ae7a6f0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110623/psparse-536)
[ 40.513429] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.VGA_.LCDD._BCM] (Node ffff88013ae71ce0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110623/psparse-536)
[ 40.513445] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20110623/video-364)
[ 41.078917] input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device as /devices/virtual/input/input12
[ 41.355291] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[ 41.355324] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 41.355328] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 41.355333] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 41.355337] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 41.355595] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 41.410742] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 41.410754] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 41.410757] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 41.420537] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 41.420543] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 51.639687] wlan0: authenticate with 68:7f:74:12:8e:44 (try 1)
[ 51.641664] wlan0: authenticated
[ 51.685471] wlan0: associate with 68:7f:74:12:8e:44 (try 1)
[ 51.689513] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 68:7f:74:12:8e:44 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
[ 51.689520] wlan0: associated
[ 51.697249] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 61.872100] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
** Model information
sys_vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
product_name: UL30A
product_version: 1.0
chassis_vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
chassis_version: 1.0
bios_vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
bios_version: 212
board_vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
board_name: UL30A
board_version: 1.0
** Network interface configuration:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2929] (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1c47]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 43
Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at c880 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at c480 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at c400 [size=32]
Region 5: Memory at fe9fb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: AzureWave AW-NE785 / AW-NE785H 802.11bgn Wireless Full or Half-size Mini PCIe Card [1a3b:1089]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at feaf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8132 Fast Ethernet [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:14e5]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 46
Region 0: Memory at febc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Region 2: I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
** USB devices:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b036 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Asus Integrated 0.3M UVC Webcam
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.99
ii linux-base 3.4
ii module-init-tools 3.16-1
Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 recommends:
ii firmware-linux-free 3
Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 suggests:
ii grub-pc 1.99-14
ii linux-doc-3.2 3.2.4-1