with mPCIe version i got one could only read eeprom but not write, or the information presented were wrong.. On 21/06/2018, mgreger@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mgreger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ---- Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> + Martin >> >> On 6/18/2018 3:53 PM, mgreger@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > >> > ---- Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> Your log only show attemps on ch 2447, Can you try connecting to 5GHz >> >> AP? Connect to Hidden Wireless Network option at the bottom of the >> >> nm-applet? Running airodump in monitor mode to see if it captures >> >> anything? Maybe your laptop's antennas were designed for 2.4G card >> >> only but this just dumb guessing... >> >> >> > >> > It won't connect to any 5GHz AP. >> > I don't run network manager or Gnome, in fact X11 is not installed on >> > this machine at all. >> > I don't think there is such a thing as 2.4GHz vs 5GHz antennas. >> >> Actually there is. At least there are 2.4G specific antennas and >> dual-band antennas. >> >> In 4.11 there have been a couple eeprom related changes dealing with >> endianness of fields in eeprom. Could be those cause a regression for >> you. I don't have the exact sha id of those commits, but I added the >> author to this thread. >> >> Regards, >> Arend >> > > An interesting new development: > > I've confirmed it's not the antenna as I was able to acquire some more cards > from a different source which work fine. > > Ostensibly they are the same card: Atheros AR9462 : QCNFA222 reference > design. > > The output from lspci for both working and non-working cards is: "03:00.0 > Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter". > > However the Subsystem listed in lspci is different. I don't have the exact > value at the moment for the working cards, but it lists Dell and the part > number DW1802. The non-working cards are AzureWave. > > I've seen a lot of similar cards on ebay that I suspect are the AzureWave. A > few offers on ebay are for the genuine Dell parts. > > What would be the best way to compare and contrast these cards to determine > if there is a way to make them work? > > Inspect EEPROM? Someone previously mentioned calibration data, but I have no > idea if it's possible to inspect or alter that. >
