OK, I have a working system now. It's not pretty, but it's better than where I was.
- Using compat-wireless-2010-09-20, with the patch "rt2x00: Fix oops caused by error path in rt2x00lib_start"
Compiled with:
CONFIG_RT2X00_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_DEBUGFS=y
and all the other DEBUGFS also set to y
- Using a 2.6.27.8 kernel compiled with debug_fs support
When my system comes up, I try to start hostapd. This may succeed, or it may fail because of the error:
phy0 -> rt2800_wait_wpdma_ready: Error - WPDMA TX/RX busy, aborting.
phy0 -> rt2800pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5).
If the error occurs, try starting hostapd one more time. (This hardly ever works.) If it fails again, reboot.
If we got past hostapd starting, then we need to see whether the card is deaf. Do this by polling
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/rt2800pci/queue/queue
for a while, to see if the RX queue counts ever get over zero.
If they do, we're good to go.
If not, kick the card this way:
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/reset
Now check to see if that hit the WPDMA TX/RX busy error. If it did, reboot. If not, assume that restarting the card fixed the RX queue (it always seems to), and we're good to go.
For your amusement and horror, I've pasted in the bash script below.
At this point, if I could eliminate the WPDMA TX/RX busy error, I'd be able to eliminate all the reboots, and make a more sane system. I'm still open to any and all suggestions on how to clear that condition!
-Joshua
…hideous bash script...
ifconfig wlan0 down
sleep 1
if ! hostapd -B /etc/hostapd.conf
then
echo "Problem starting Wi-Fi hardware. Retrying..."
sleep 3
if ! hostapd -B /etc/hostapd.conf
then
echo -e "***\n*** Unable to initialize Wi-Fi hardware\n***\n***\n*** Restarting...\n***"
cleanreboot
sleep 60
fi
fi
sleep 1
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
if [ -e /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/rt2800pci/ ]
then
echo "Testing Wi-Fi hardware..."
RETRY=1
while [ $RETRY -lt 20 ]
do
if [ `cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/rt2800pci/queue/queue | egrep -c '^14.0.24.24.0.0.0$'` -eq 0 ]
then
break
fi
echo -n '.'
sleep 1
RETRY=$((RETRY+1))
done
if [ $RETRY -eq 20 ]
then
echo "failed. Resetting..."
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/reset
sleep 1
if [ `dmesg | tail -n 30 | grep -c "rt2800_wait_wpdma_ready"` -gt 0 ]
then
echo -e "***\n*** Unable to reset Wi-Fi hardware\n***\n***\n*** Restarting...\n***"
cleanreboot
sleep 60
fi
else
echo "Passed!"
fi
fi
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