Bug#464114: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: ath5k gets stuck at 1Mbits/s and dhclient can't get an address
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
Version: 2.6.24-2
Severity: normal
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Card has been working for quite a while using madwifi and the same access points. Usually at
maximum speed (54Mbits/s). With ath5k I could barely get it to associate, and the rate was
stuck at 1Mbits/s. In addition, dhclient was unable to get an ipaddress, indicating that
packets either could not be sent or received. Rebooting into 2.6.23-1-686 with madwifi
worked as expected, showing that neither card, AP nor DHCP server has any problems.
Feb 5 06:57:18 obelix kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb 5 06:57:18 obelix kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:02:02.0: registered as 'phy0'
Feb 5 06:57:18 obelix kernel: phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
Feb 5 06:57:18 obelix kernel: ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5213 chip found (MAC: 0x56, PHY: 0x41)
Feb 5 06:57:18 obelix kernel: ath5k phy0: RF5111 5GHz radio found (0x17)
Feb 5 06:57:18 obelix kernel: ath5k phy0: RF2111 2GHz radio found (0x23)
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: All rights reserved.
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient:
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: Please contribute if you find this software useful.
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient:
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix dhclient: irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
Feb 5 07:07:26 obelix kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
Feb 5 07:07:27 obelix dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 5 07:07:27 obelix dhclient: irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
Feb 5 07:07:27 obelix dhclient: Listening on LPF/ath0/00:05:4e:4c:77:69
Feb 5 07:07:27 obelix dhclient: Sending on LPF/ath0/00:05:4e:4c:77:69
Feb 5 07:07:27 obelix dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Feb 5 07:07:27 obelix dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 5 07:07:33 obelix dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 5 07:07:41 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Feb 5 07:07:45 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Feb 5 07:07:56 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Feb 5 07:08:08 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Feb 5 07:08:16 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Feb 5 07:08:24 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Feb 5 07:08:39 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: Initial auth_alg=0
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: authenticate with AP 00:11:d8:76:09:1d
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: RX authentication from 00:11:d8:76:09:1d (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: authenticated
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: associate with AP 00:11:d8:76:09:1d
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:d8:76:09:1d (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5)
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: associated
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ath0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:d8:76:09:1d)
Feb 5 07:08:50 obelix kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: All rights reserved.
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient:
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: Please contribute if you find this software useful.
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient:
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix dhclient: irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
Feb 5 07:09:02 obelix kernel: ath0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:d8:76:09:1d)
Feb 5 07:09:03 obelix dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 5 07:09:03 obelix dhclient: irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
Feb 5 07:09:03 obelix dhclient: Listening on LPF/ath0/00:05:4e:4c:77:69
Feb 5 07:09:03 obelix dhclient: Sending on LPF/ath0/00:05:4e:4c:77:69
Feb 5 07:09:03 obelix dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Feb 5 07:09:03 obelix dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 5 07:09:07 obelix dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 5 07:09:18 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Feb 5 07:09:23 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Feb 5 07:09:32 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
Feb 5 07:09:45 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
Feb 5 07:09:59 obelix dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
obelix:/home/bjorn# lspci -vvvns 02:02
02:02.0 0200: 168c:1014 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 17ab:8331
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
- -- Package-specific info:
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
- -- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.24-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.24-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.24-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.24-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.24-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.24-1-686: true
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.24-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.24-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.24-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.24-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
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