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On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:31 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Monday 16 March 2009, Antonio Marques wrote:
> > On Mar 16, 2009, at 14:58 , Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 March 2009, António Marques wrote:
> > >>
> > >> As requested, I have attached the output of the script run before and
> > >> after
> > >> running 'iwlist mesh scan'. Unfortunately there seems to be no  
> > >> change in
> > >> the output. I have also included the queue statistics as these do
> > >> change from
> > >> one state to the next. Any further pointers to help debug this? I'll
> > >> gladly test
> > >> any patches that try to address this issue.
> > >
> > > The dumps aren't correct, I had forgotten to update the script on  
> > > the website
> > > after some API for the rt2x00 debugfs interface changes recently.
> > > Attached is the correct patch.
> > >
> > > Ivo
> > > <rt2x00_regdump.sh>
> > 
> > Fixed, new dumps are attached.
> 
> Thanks for the dumps, the reason why the beaconing isn't working
> is (fortunately) very obvious from the registers point of view.
> The "generate beacons" bit is simply not enabled. However the reason
> why this bit has not been set escapes me. Could you apply the attached
> patch? This will add extra debug messages to the driver to see when the
> beacon generation bit is set.

I think mac80211 is probably not requesting it until you scan -- since
once you scan it calls ieee80211_if_config internally and changes that
bit. Some mesh code needs to call ieee80211_if_config() with the beacon
enable change flag.

johannes

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