+ ath6kl-devel On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:52 PM, <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > I tried a wek or so ago to get some help with my ping problems. > > Essentially, the problem I see is that my AR6004 based USB wifi adaptor can associate with an AP OK, and gets an IP address via DHCP just fine. > But, pings don't work. > > I can't ping to the device from another PC on the same subnet, and I can't ping out. > > And, I think my problem has something to do with MAC addresses. > > According to wireshark, pings are received by the USB wifi device OK, but the echo reply is going back out to the wrong MAC address - so it's never received by the ping originator. > > Attached is some debug from the driver - which hopefully someone will understand. > > Someone suggested that my problem might be endianness related - but I can see that myself - because Association with the AP, and DHCP wouldn't work if that was the case. > The problem looks to me more like a problem with structure alignment - where the MAC address table is shifted over. > > > You will see in the attached file that the ping originator MAC address is 20:CF:30:94:83:7B > And, the MAC address of the wifi adaptor itself is 00:03:7F:20:50:59 > > According to wireshark the MAC address which the echo reply is going back to is neither of these. > > Any ideas what's wrong? care to check with the latest driver and firmware https://github.com/cernekee/linux-firmware/tree/master/ath6k/AR6004 http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ AR6004 is pretty decent working. > > > Regards > > Nick -- thanks, shafi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
