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On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 5:32 AM Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 08:52:18PM +0000, Sid Hayn wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 5:11 PM Lorenzo Bianconi
> > <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have one mt76x2u (Alfa AWUS036ACM) and a few mt76x0.
> > > >
> > > > I've noticed two additional issues in my testing.
> > > >
> > > > First issue, is that it appears the mt76x0 devices don't work properly
> > > > in monitor mode.  Sometimes they seem to monitor one channel properly,
> > > > but nothing else.  The mt76x2u works great, channel control, lots of
> > > > packets, etc.
> > >
> > > Could you elaborate a little bit please? how can you reproduce the issue?
> > > just add an interface in monitor mode and run a scan?
> >
> > Correct, standard stuff, use iw to create a monitor mode interface,
> > use iw to remove managed mode interface, run some tool such as kismet
> > or airodump-ng or even wireshark.
>
> But what exactly are the syptomps, I don't understand what you mean by
> "mt76x0 devices don't work properly in monitor mode" ?
>
> > > I guess it depends on eeprom values. Could you please enable debug
> > > messages a paste
> > > syslog output?
> >
> > I don't see a mediatek specific debug near the driver selection in
> > menuconfig, what debug messages do you want me to enable and how?
>
> You need to uncomment this line:
>
> # ccflags-y := -DDEBUG
>
> in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x0/Makefile

I have done this change, rebooted, and plugged in the TP-Link t1u
dongle which is 5GHz only.  This is dmesg:
[   30.058587] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[   30.200008] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=2357,
idProduct=0105, bcdDevice= 1.00
[   30.200010] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   30.200012] usb 2-2: Product: WiFi
[   30.200013] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: MediaTek
[   30.200015] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 1.0
[   30.332895] usb 2-2: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[   30.466124] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: ASIC revision: 76100002 MAC revision: 76502000
[   30.467534] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: Firmware Version: 0.1.00 Build: 7640
Build time: 201308221655____
[   30.789455] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: loading FW - ILM 68716 + IVB 64
[   30.844588] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: loading FW - DLM 11476
[   31.172677] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: Firmware running!
[   31.378879] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: MCU not ready
[   31.393770] BBP version f000f200
[   31.410935] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: EEPROM ver:02 fae:01
[   31.411086] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: NIC_CONF0: fd11 NIC_CONF1: 3084
[   31.411088] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: Has 2GHZ 1 5GHZ 1
[   31.411089] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: PA Type 1
[   31.411090] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: REG 2GHZ 0 REG 5GHZ 9
[   31.411092] mt76x0 2-2:1.0: EEPROM country region 00 (channels 1-11)
[   31.416308] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[   31.417285] usbcore: registered new interface driver mt76x0

What would you like next?

-Zero
>
> Thanks
> Stanislaw
>



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