[Voyage-linux] Problems with alix 2d3 and madwifi on voyage-current (lenny)

[Punky Tse]

Hi,

Voyage kernel in 0.6.1 is now compiled under Lenny, hence it make use if 
gcc 4.3.2 now.

- Punky


Panagiotis Malakoudis wrote:
> As I said in my follow up message, building the linux voyage kernel 
> inside voyage-current (thus making use of lenny's gcc 4.3.2) almost 
> eliminates the problem. After 24 hours uptime, I only got five "stuck 
> beacon" lines in my dmesg, and the performance is great. I haven't yet 
> tried any newer version of madwifi.
>
> I would suggest the voyage team to build the voyage kernel under a 
> voyage-current (lenny) environment on the 0.6.1 release.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at pong.be 
> <mailto:ward at pong.be>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:17:51PM +0100, Juergen Adolph wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > accurately the same hardware/config. accurately the same problem!
>
>     I'm seeing the same problem on alix 2c3 with madwifi and
>     voyage-current.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Ward.
>
>     > ----- "Panagiotis Malakoudis" <malakudi at gmail.com
>     <mailto:malakudi at gmail.com>> schrieb:
>     >
>     > > I updated one of my ALIX 2D3 systems with voyage-current
>     (lenny) and I
>     > > keep getting messages like:
>     > > wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon
>     miss count:
>     > > 11)
>     > > or
>     > > wifi0: ath_rxorn_tasklet: Receive FIFO overrun; resetting.
>     > > and even this some times
>     > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: wifi0: transmit timed out
>     > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
>     > > WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:223 dev_watchdog+0x8a/0xe2()
>     > > [<c0113530>] warn_on_slowpath+0x40/0x65
>     > > [<c0128b17>] tick_handle_periodic+0xc/0x55
>     > > [<d0922b9c>] zz00050ae3+0xdc/0xf0 [ath_hal]
>     > > [<d09a11b1>] ath_set_ack_bitrate+0x161/0x168 [ath_pci]
>     > > [<d0989c13>] ath_reset+0x223/0x263 [ath_pci]
>     > > [<c025872a>] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xe2
>     > > [<c025872a>] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xe2
>     > > [<c02587b4>] dev_watchdog+0x8a/0xe2
>     > > [<c0119f2c>] run_timer_softirq+0xfc/0x15d
>     > > [<c0116f73>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x75
>     > > [<c0116fd5>] do_softirq+0x22/0x26
>     > > [<c011713b>] irq_exit+0x25/0x5d
>     > > [<c0104f35>] do_IRQ+0x50/0x60
>     > > [<c0103973>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30
>     > >
>     > > I've read in some fora that this might be fixed if you build
>     kernel
>     > > and madwifi tools with latest gcc - 4.3.2 (it seems that current
>     > > voyage kernel is built with gcc 4.1.2), so I am going to try
>     that, but
>     > > I first would like to know if any other people experience such
>     kind of
>     > > problems.
>     > > I run my CM9 atheros card as an Access Point bridged with
>     eth0, with
>     > > WPA2-PSK.
>     > >
>     > > I never had any such problems with voyage 0.5.2 in this
>     configuration.
>     > >
>     > >
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>     > --
>     > Juergen Adolph
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