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bunder
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 Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:18 am Post subject: Unable to bring up wifi card, 5ghz radio disabled? |
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Setting up a new router (edit: on 4.19) to get rid of my old one (edit: which I think was on 4.14), I popped my wifi card into the new box and I can't seem to get hostapd to start.
| Code: | Nov 27 13:34:53 hyper hostapd: wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Configured channel (44) not found from the channel list of current mode (2) IEEE 802.11a
Nov 27 13:34:53 hyper hostapd: wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured channel
Nov 27 13:34:53 hyper /etc/init.d/hostapd[42612]: start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd'
Nov 27 13:34:53 hyper /etc/init.d/hostapd[42309]: ERROR: hostapd failed to start
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I copied the hostapd.conf from my previous machine, and it seemed to be working fine there...
| Code: | Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: ath9k 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x14
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: ath: Country alpha2 being used: CA
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: ath: Regpair used: 0x14
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| Code: | Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: cfg80211: loaded regulatory.db is malformed or signature is missing/invalid
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
Nov 27 14:07:05 hyper kernel: cfg80211: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-22)
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Not really sure what this is all about, everything I read online about the regulatory stuff is either outdated, or suggests turning off secure boot, which I disabled before I even installed the OS on this box. I have regulatory.db and regulatory.db.p7s in firmware, wireless-regdb and crda are installed... When I run iw get reg it says it's set to Canada, but the radio is disabled because of some NO-IR nonsense.
Kernel config: http://dpaste.com/263CBSJ
Any ideas would be helpful, thanks in advance.
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bunder
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| Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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building the entire wireless stack as modules seems to have worked. not sure why it doesn't work as built-ins, my laptop seems to handle it okay. cheers
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| Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| Builtin drivers may initialize before the filesystem is ready to provide needed supporting files (proprietary firmware, or the regulatory database). Modules will initialize later, after the filesystem is available. If you want the driver to be builtin, you could build the supporting files into the kernel or initramfs. |
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bunder
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:37 am Post subject: |
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Oh jeez. It's never good when you find your own thread and it doesn't help...
Upgraded from 5.4.200 to 5.15.60 and it's broken again. 
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hyper ~ # dmesg | grep 80211
[ 29.972046] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
[ 29.973599] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
[ 31.100198] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 31.100388] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9300 Rev:3 mem=0xfffface51f380000, irq=41
hyper ~ # dmesg | grep regulatory
[ 29.973612] Loading firmware: regulatory.db
[ 29.973614] Loading firmware: regulatory.db.p7s
hyper ~ # dmesg | grep ath
[ 31.017841] ath9k 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 31.099744] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x14
[ 31.099745] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 31.099746] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CA
[ 31.099747] ath: Regpair used: 0x14
hyper ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 status
* status: started
hyper ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start
* Starting hostapd ...
wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->COUNTRY_UPDATE
Frequency 5220 (primary) not allowed for AP mode, flags: 0x10073 NO-IR
Primary frequency not allowed
wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Configured channel (44) or frequency (5220) (secondary_channel=0) not found from the channel list of the current mode (2) IEEE 802.11a
wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured channel
Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-3)
wlan0: interface state COUNTRY_UPDATE->DISABLED
wlan0: AP-DISABLED
wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
wlan0: interface state DISABLED->DISABLED
wlan0: AP-DISABLED
wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started
nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd'
* Failed to start hostapd [ !! ]
* ERROR: hostapd failed to start
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hyper ~ # zgrep 80211 /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_CFG80211=m
# CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE is not set
# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS is not set
# CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS is not set
CONFIG_CFG80211_REQUIRE_SIGNED_REGDB=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_USE_KERNEL_REGDB_KEYS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y
# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEBUGFS is not set
CONFIG_CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT=y
# CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set
CONFIG_MAC80211=m
CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht"
# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set
CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y
# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS is not set
# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING is not set
# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set
CONFIG_MAC80211_STA_HASH_MAX_SIZE=0
# CONFIG_MAC80211_HWSIM is not set
hyper ~ # zgrep ATH /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_ATH=y
# CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_ATH9K=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_PCI=y
# CONFIG_ATH9K_AHB is not set
# CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUGFS is not set
# CONFIG_ATH9K_DYNACK is not set
# CONFIG_ATH9K_WOW is not set
CONFIG_ATH9K_RFKILL=y
# CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT is not set
CONFIG_ATH9K_PCOEM=y
# CONFIG_ATH9K_PCI_NO_EEPROM is not set
# CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC is not set
CONFIG_ATH9K_HWRNG=y
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CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="...snip... regulatory.db regulatory.db.p7s"
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hyper ~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/wifi.conf
options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom="CA"
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hyper ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath9k 98304 0
ath9k_common 16384 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 462848 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
ath 36864 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211 774144 1 ath9k
cfg80211 761856 4 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath,mac80211
rfkill 28672 2 ath9k,cfg80211
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hyper ~ # emerge -pv wireless-regdb hostapd crda
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] net-wireless/wireless-regdb-20220606::gentoo 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] net-wireless/crda-4.14::gentoo USE="-gcrypt" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] net-wireless/hostapd-2.10::gentoo USE="crda suiteb wps -internal-tls -ipv6 -netlink -savedconfig -sqlite" 0 KiB
Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
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Setting regdom on the kernel command line causes bug/oopes when the regulatory files get loaded by the kernel. With modprobe.conf it gets set correctly, but 5ghz is still no-IR.
I'm at a loss now... any ideas anyone?
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bunder
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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Looking at this again over breakfast...
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hyper /usr/src/linux # iw reg get
global
country CA: DFS-FCC
(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
(5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
(5470 - 5600 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
(5650 - 5730 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
(5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(5925 - 7125 @ 320), (N/A, 12), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
phy#0
country CA: DFS-FCC
(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
(5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
(5470 - 5600 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
(5650 - 5730 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
(5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(5925 - 7125 @ 320), (N/A, 12), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
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hyper /usr/src/linux # iw list
Frequencies:
* 2412 MHz [1] (24.0 dBm)
* 2417 MHz [2] (24.0 dBm)
* 2422 MHz [3] (24.0 dBm)
* 2427 MHz [4] (24.0 dBm)
* 2432 MHz [5] (24.0 dBm)
* 2437 MHz [6] (24.0 dBm)
* 2442 MHz [7] (24.0 dBm)
* 2447 MHz [8] (24.0 dBm)
* 2452 MHz [9] (24.0 dBm)
* 2457 MHz [10] (24.0 dBm)
* 2462 MHz [11] (24.0 dBm)
* 2467 MHz [12] (disabled)
* 2472 MHz [13] (disabled)
* 2484 MHz [14] (disabled)
Frequencies:
* 5180 MHz [36] (21.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5200 MHz [40] (21.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5220 MHz [44] (21.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5240 MHz [48] (21.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5260 MHz [52] (21.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection)
* 5280 MHz [56] (21.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection)
* 5300 MHz [60] (21.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection)
* 5320 MHz [64] (21.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection)
* 5500 MHz [100] (disabled)
* 5520 MHz [104] (disabled)
* 5540 MHz [108] (disabled)
* 5560 MHz [112] (disabled)
* 5580 MHz [116] (disabled)
* 5600 MHz [120] (disabled)
* 5620 MHz [124] (disabled)
* 5640 MHz [128] (disabled)
* 5660 MHz [132] (disabled)
* 5680 MHz [136] (disabled)
* 5700 MHz [140] (disabled)
* 5745 MHz [149] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5765 MHz [153] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5785 MHz [157] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5805 MHz [161] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5825 MHz [165] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
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I'm half tempted to enable CFG80211_REG_RELAX_NO_IR and give the FCC the finger...
edit: well, it didn't work. I guess I'm buying a WAP now. Thanks kernel devs...
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| If it breaks on a kernel upgrade, that is a reportable kernel regression. However, to get anywhere, you probably need to narrow down what commit broke it. Your jump from one stable to another covers a huge number of commits. |
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bunder
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | If it breaks on a kernel upgrade, that is a reportable kernel regression. However, to get anywhere, you probably need to narrow down what commit broke it. Your jump from one stable to another covers a huge number of commits. |
I would, but it's my router, and hosts several virtual machines... and every reboot is a 50/50 chance of getting iommu or rcu bugs during boot, or the mobo downclocks the memory to 2133, or the pcie bus rejecting my HBA's during boot... in fact, I had to jump through a lot of hoops to even get it to boot 5.15.60, because it would just die and black-screen when it loads the .efi file. Whether there's something wrong with the 2950x or the x399-a board, I can't wait to retire this system...
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