ath10k: firmware crash in station mode

[Janusz Dziedzic]

On 15 May 2014 09:07, Vu Hai NGUYEN <vh.nguyen at actiasodielec.fr> wrote:
> I tried to set up station mode using ath10k and wpa_supplicant.
> If I used the firmware in branch 10.1 version firmware-2.bin_10.1.467.2-1 (which said that support STA mode but not well tested) , it crashed after associating with the access point:
>
> wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:15:61:10:51:de (SSID='actia' freq=2457 MHz)
> wlan0: authenticate with 00:15:61:10:51:de
> wlan0: send auth to 00:15:61:10:51:de (try 1/3)
> wlan0: authenticated
> wlan0: Trying to associate with 00:15:61:10:51:de (SSID='actia' freq=2457 MHz)
> wlan0: associate with 00:15:61:10:51:de (try 1/3)
> wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:15:61:10:51:de (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=1)
> wlan0: associated
> ath10k: firmware crashed!
> ath10k: hardware name qca988x hw2.0 version 0x4100016c
> ath10k: firmware version: 10.1.467.2-1
> ath10k: target register Dump Location: 0x00401930
> ath10k: target Register Dump
> ath10k: [00]: 0x4100016C 0x00000000 0x009A123A 0x00000000
> ath10k: [04]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [08]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [12]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [16]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x009A123A
> ath10k: [20]: 0x00000000 0x00401930 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [24]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [28]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [32]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [36]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [40]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [44]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [48]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [52]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> ath10k: [56]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> br0: received packet on eth0 with own address as source address
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
> br0: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state
> br0: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state
> wlan0: Associated with 00:15:61:10:51:de
> ath10k: failed to put down monitor vdev 1: -11
> ath10k: failed to to request monitor vdev 1 stop: -11
> ath10k: failed to synchronise monitor vdev 1: -110
> ath10k: failed to stop monitor vdev: -110
> ath10k: failed to request wmi monitor vdev 1 removal: -11
> ath10k: failed to delete monitor vdev: -11
> ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
> ath10k: failed to request monitor vdev 2 creation: -108
> ath10k: failed to create monitor vdev: -108
> ath10k: failed to start monitor (promisc): -108
> wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:15:61:10:51:de completed [id=0 id_str=]
> ath10k: device has crashed during init
> ath10k: failed to wait for target to init: -70
> ath10k: failed to power up target using warm reset: -70
> ath10k: trying cold reset
>
> Than I tried another version of firmware from branch 999. (which said that support STA mode) but it worse, the firmware crashed before seeing the access point. (can not associate)
> This crashed is because of my system or just only the firmware issue? And is the firmware still continue developping? (There is a debug message of my system in the attached file if any one are interested in)
>
> Btw is there anyone could set a channel (from 52 and more) that employs DFS sucessfully confirm it for me cause I can not do it until now :D
What kind of error you see?

BTW, what is your system configuration, is that PC or some other board
(openwrt ...). What kernel version are you using? Did you change/hack
ath.ko regdb?
If that is PC I would recommend to use ath10k kernel from github.

BR
Janusz