Hello all,
Coming here to try to get some help with my wifi alpha card. It just can't scan / connect. It can dump me data in monitor mode though.
Here are some outputs :
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# uname -a
Linux a20-OLinuXino 3.4.67+ #6 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 1 17:32:40 EET 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
ID=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.debian.org/"
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
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:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath9k_htc 53734 0
ath9k_common 3206 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw 359727 2 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc
ath 17007 3 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw
mac80211 249857 1 ath9k_htc
cpufreq_powersave 1207 0
cpufreq_conservative 6042 0
cpufreq_stats 3699 0
cpufreq_userspace 3318 0
sunxi_cedar_mod 9704 0
8192cu 454131 0
ump 50981 0
hdmi 31627 0
lcd 4711 0
If I manually scan for APs, takes a while before telling me device is busy :
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# ifconfig wlan9 up
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:4c:0a:81:82:21
inet addr:192.168.9.20 Bcast:192.168.9.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::4c:aff:fe81:8221/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1824 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:117466 (114.7 KiB) TX bytes:1034501 (1010.2 KiB)
Interrupt:87 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:ca:75:d9:af
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
root@a20-OLinuXino:~# iwlist wlan9 scanning
wlan9 Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
When network-manager is launched, any network command hangs, can't even make new ssh connection to the board, and syslog says :
Jun 2 22:38:10 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 772.036840] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan9: link is not ready
Jun 2 22:38:15 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 777.654007] ehci_irq: port change detect
Jun 2 22:38:15 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 777.663522] hub 2-0:1.0: port 1 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
Jun 2 22:38:15 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 777.674285] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
Jun 2 22:38:17 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.543771] ath: phy0: Chip reset failed
Jun 2 22:38:17 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.553693] ath: phy0: Unable to reset channel (2412 Mhz) reset status -22
Jun 2 22:38:17 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.563917] ath: phy0: Unable to set channel
Jun 2 22:38:17 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.683414] ath: phy0: Chip reset failed
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.693858] ath: phy0: Unable to reset hardware; reset status -22 (freq 2432 MHz)
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.827946] ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.846983] ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 779.865898] ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 780.147955] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 780.438486] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using sw-ehci
Jun 2 22:38:18 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 780.624967] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 780.941956] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.177285] ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.395787] ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.3
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.404327] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x833a
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.413543] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.429253] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.438365] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x37
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.446578] ath: Country alpha2 being used: GB
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.453454] ath: Regpair used: 0x37
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.469434] ieee80211 phy1: Atheros AR9271 Rev:1
Jun 2 22:38:19 a20-OLinuXino kernel: [ 781.480791] Registered led device: ath9k_htc-phy1
The card works fine on another ubuntu computer.
I installed firmware-atheros version from wheezy-backports repo to end up discovering the firmware was actually the same. Maybe I need a kernel update?
Any suggestion greatly appreciated.
Same issue with latest firmware 1.4
[36806.841225] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
[36807.131790] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using sw-ehci
[36807.319450] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[36807.619501] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51008
[36807.869704] ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[36808.095084] ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.4
By any chance, anyone knows the limitation on usb power? Can't find the information anywhere.