I am getting good results with revision 5b6a96d870aea85ae5ef3f775a8403a9f40f8747 however after pinging a few times my system completely locks up :-( I'm getting frustratingly close to having this working! Cheers Keir 2008/12/17 Keir <keirlawson@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hu Andrey, > > I'm using Netgear WG311TGE PCI cards, lspci says: > > Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband > processor (rev 01) > > There is only one bit to plug in an antenna, so I've only had one > plugged in, there isnt a place to plug in a second. After the commit > in question I get no beaconing, before I get beaconing, but the PLINK > state keeps flipping between OPEN_SNT and LISTEN, implying that for > some reason it isnt receiving any PLINK packets. > > That said, I havent tried directly after the PCU commit, so I will try > that now... but as I dont have an aux connector surely it shouldnt > effect me? > > Cheers > > Keir > > 2008/12/16 Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi Keir. What type of Atheros-based card are you using? How many >> antennas do you have connected? If I understand things correctly, the >> PCU code regression (with respect to mesh and maybe AP and IBSS) has >> to do with having one antenna hooked up when your hardware also has an >> AUX antenna connector. If you have only one antenna, can you please >> plug in a second one and try again (before and after the commit in >> question)? I will try to do the same test here. More details from >> Nick were posted here: >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122771338021489&w=2 >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Keir <keirlawson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I've been working on the commit previous to the PCU code breakage >>> (8485b7f773a8e9883e0165273940f16a086eba2b), but I'm still having >>> problems (beaconing is working, but links are rarely established, most >>> of the time to packets get through). >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Keir >>> >>> 2008/12/16 Steve Brown <sbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> Keir wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Having has no luck with an old rc6 version (basically all plink >>>>> packets were getting lost), I upgraded to the newest git (rc8) however >>>>> now when I run iw dev mesh0 station sump I don't see a single other >>>>> mesh point. This would imply that presumably beaconing is broken? >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know a revision for which ath5k is properly working? I am >>>>> yet to find one that works on my system. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> Keir >>>>> -- >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> Beaconing seems broken by Update PCU code >>>> dd1c9abd167de9bb9457a57694a1ab5e5801a0c1. After this patch, beacon debug >>>> says beacons sent, but sniffer sees none. >>>> >>>> A snapshot of ath5k prior to this and git 12/10 >>>> (b6d06c9669f27db31a0317fc98fedc8ff1ba4822) works for me with hostapd/wpa. >>>> It's been running for the past few days. >>>> >>>> Mesh beaconing also works. I didn't test two nodes; I only sniffed the >>>> beacons. >>>> >>>> I had to comment out 5GHz in caps.c because of too many channels. It's a >>>> nl80211 buffer size problem that's been discussed. >>>> >>>> Steve >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Andrey Yurovsky >> cozybit Inc. >> > -- 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
