On Sunday 15 March 2009, Antonio Marques wrote: > Upon further investigation, beaconing does not work after configuring > an interface in mesh point mode but running 'iwlist mesh scan' > triggers something in the driver that enables beaconing. > After executing this command beacons are generated and correctly > received at other nodes. Thats odd, but very interesting :) Could you enable debugfs and CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_DEBUGFS and use the script from http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ivd/tools/rt2x00_regdump.sh to create a register dump before running 'iwlist mesh scan' and afterwards. (So basically when beaconing is broken and when it is working). Thanks, Ivo > This behaviour is present using both rt73usb and rt2500pci based cards. > Once beaconing is triggered the interface works as expected and mesh > peer links are automatically established. I assume this is a bug in > the rt2x00 > driver. Is there anything I can do to help debug this problem? > > Thanks, > Antonio Marques > > On Jan 24, 2009, at 11:40 , António Marques wrote: > > Ok. I didn't realize the driver was broken and the issue wasn't > > specific > > to mesh support. I hope the driver maintainers can solve this soon. > > > > Thanks, > > Antonio Marques > > > > On Jan 23, 2009, at 19:02 , Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > >> Hi Antonio. As I understand it, beaconing is currently broken in > >> rt2x00 (it used to work in the past). This means that, until the > >> device can send beacons again, it won't be able to do mesh (or AP or > >> IBSS). However the commit in question at least sets up the driver to > >> support mesh as soon as beaconing works again. > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Antonio Marques <froz@xxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have been trying to setup a mesh network using the 802.11s > >>> stack, but > >>> unfortunately the only hardware that I have readily available are > >>> rt2x00 > >>> usb dongles and an ath5k mini-pci card. Since support for rt2x00 > >>> driver is listed on o11s.org as being in development, what is the > >>> current > >>> status > >>> of mesh support for this driver? > >>> > >>> I see recent commit activity such as > >>> fdc26201323eb8ba543ac5624f8d71e55b6f7352, > >>> "rt2x00: Add mesh support" but I am still unable to establish mesh > >>> links > >>> using > >>> rt2x00 devices. An rt2x00 device can see the ath5k device > >>> according to > >>> 'iw dev mesh station dump', but the link state never changes to > >>> ESTAB. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Antonio Marques > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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 > >>> > > > > -- 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
