Hostapd driver issues in orange pi Zero

Sun Mar 5 20:50:23 PST 2017

Hi

Am 05.03.2017 um 08:38 schrieb ravin goyal:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running hostapd 2.5 on orange pi zero running debian jessie and
> my wireless driver is xradio_wlan.

if i see it correctly, your wifi controller is Allwiner XR819. It looks
like SDIO device with own ram and firmware loaded to it. I don't have
specs for it, but i assume there is not enough RAM to work with more
then 9 devices.

> First it was running fine when I was testing without bridge settings
> in hostapd.conf.
> 
> But when I set bridge=br0 in  hostapd.conf and restart the process, as
> the number of STA's are getting connected to the hostapd access point.
> 
> I noticed driver error allover in syslog and dmesg, I am sharing few
> logs from dmesg as below:
> 
> [Sun Mar  5 07:46:46 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 07:46:52 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:47:48 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:48:16 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 07:49:56 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:51:14 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 07:51:57 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:52:07 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:52:14 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:52:18 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 07:53:30 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:56:09 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 07:59:00 2017] [BH_WRN] miss interrupt!
> [Sun Mar  5 08:00:00 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 08:00:38 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:01:16 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:01:48 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 08:02:21 2017] [STA_WRN] Inactivity Event Recieved for link_id 1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:02:21 2017] [STA_WRN]  Inactivity Deauth Frame sent for
> MAC SA 88:79:7e:13:5e:ce      and DA dc:44:6d:6b:43:18
> [Sun Mar  5 08:02:31 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 08:03:09 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:03:56 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:04:52 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:04:54 2017] [STA_WRN] Inactivity Event Recieved for link_id 3
> [Sun Mar  5 08:04:54 2017] [STA_WRN]  Inactivity Deauth Frame sent for
> MAC SA 88:79:7e:13:5e:ce      and DA dc:44:6d:6b:43:18
> [Sun Mar  5 08:04:59 2017] [AP_WRN] Multicast delivery timeout.
> [Sun Mar  5 08:05:44 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:06:50 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:07:11 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:07:26 2017] [BH_WRN] miss interrupt!
> [Sun Mar  5 08:08:02 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:08:16 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:08:48 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:10:04 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:10:26 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:11:22 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:12:31 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:17:18 2017] [BH_WRN] miss interrupt!
> [Sun Mar  5 08:18:52 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:21:28 2017] [STA_WRN] Inactivity Event Recieved for link_id 4
> [Sun Mar  5 08:21:28 2017] [STA_WRN]  Inactivity Deauth Frame sent for
> MAC SA 88:79:7e:13:5e:ce      and DA dc:44:6d:6b:43:18
> [Sun Mar  5 08:22:30 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:23:22 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:24:00 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:24:14 2017] [WSM_ERR] wsm_flush_tx:No pengding, but
> hw_bufs_used=1
> [Sun Mar  5 08:24:23 2017] [BH_WRN] miss interrupt!
> 
> Internet is working fine on the connected devices but these errors are
> keep coming in syslog which are hard to ignore.
> Any idea about this ?
> 
> Moreover One more thing I noticed is that I can connect atmost 9-10
> clients( I get to know this by running hostapd_cli all_sta) afterwards
> it just keeps showing status connecting... when a new clients try to
> connect until unless one or more clients that are already connected
> gets disconnected.
> I even has set max_num_sta=255 but no help ?
> 
> Regards
> Ravin
> 

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