On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> As already pointed out, no Marwell WLAN hardware here. Marvell comics
>>>> of course :-).
(I had to leave that one..:-)
>>>
>>> A new tarball from lautriv with same outputs as before, but now tested
>>> with Linux-3.4-rc4.
>>>
>>> - Sedat -
>>
>>
>> heres my logs, using firmware extracted by Sedat's script,
>> and the patch on mwl8k.c
>>
>> bottom-line, it appears to be working.
>>
>> its contents are a bit more pedantic, and includes data for
>> another wifi card (rtl8180 based) also in the box.
>> It was obtained by this script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> # dmesg (Linux-3.3.3)
>> # e_n_a (/etc/network/interfaces)
>> # ifconfig output
>> # iwconfig output
>> # iw_phy output
>> # ps_axu (WPA) output
>>
>> devs="wlan0 wlan1"
>> apmac=00:14:d1:e8:65:0a
>>
>> loudly () {
>> echo "# $@"
>> fname=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/ /-/g'`
>> $@ 2> $fname-err | tee $fname
>> [ $? != 0 ] && echo non-zero exit on $fname: $?
>> [ -s $fname-err ] || rm $fname-err
>> }
>>
>> ( iw --debug event -f > iw-event-f )&
>> pid_event=$!
>>
>> for N in 0 1 ; do
>> loudly iw dev wlan$N interface add fish$N type monitor # flags none
>> loudly iw dev fish$N set channel 8
>> loudly ifconfig fish$N up
>> ( tcpdump -i fish$N -s 65000 -p -U -w fish$N.dump )&
>> pid_dump_fish$N=$!
>> done
>>
>> loudly iw list
>>
>> #loudly iwspy
>> # gives: Interface doesn't support wireless statistic collection
>>
>> for dev in $devs ; do
>> loudly ifconfig $dev
>> loudly iwconfig $dev
>> loudly iwlist $dev scan
>> loudly iw dev $dev info
>> loudly iw dev $dev link
>> loudly iw dev $dev scan
>> loudly iw dev $dev survey dump
>> done
>>
>> for phy in $phys ; do
>> loudly iw phy $phy info
>> done
>>
>> # these are unsupported on wlan0
>> loudly iw dev wlan1 survey dump
>> loudly iw dev wlan1 station dump
>> loudly iw dev wlan1 station get $apmac
>>
>>
>> for N in 0 1 ; do
>> loudly iw dev fish$N del
>> done
>>
>> kill $pid_dump_fish0 $pid_dump_fish0
>> kill $pid_event
>>
>> dmesg > dmesg
>>
>> grep -vE '^#|key' /etc/network/interfaces > e_n_a
>>
>> exit
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> thanks for your testing and the nice testcase-script!
>
> lautriv you wanna run some more tests with Jim's script?
>
> Jim, how stable/fast/reliable is your WLAN connection?
> Suspend/resume tested?
I havent tested reliability in any way.
in fact, I havent tested any data-xfer per se,
will do an iperf test soon.
That said, bitrate is quite low, I havent looked at why.
jimc@chumly:~/projects/lx/wifi/mwl8k-8361p-logs$ grep -i MBit *
iw-dev-wlan0-link: tx bitrate: 11.0 MBit/s
iw-dev-wlan1-link: tx bitrate: 1.0 MBit/s
iw-dev-wlan1-station-dump: tx bitrate: 1.0 MBit/s
iw-dev-wlan1-station-get-00:14:d1:e8:65:0a: tx bitrate: 1.0 MBit/s
my laptop is much faster than both cards in the soekris box, to same AP
Connected to 00:14:d1:e8:65:0a (on wlan0)
SSID: yoduh
freq: 2447
RX: 191134302 bytes (2120068 packets)
TX: 17440426 bytes (120666 packets)
signal: -45 dBm
tx bitrate: 54.0 MBit/s
bss flags:
dtim period: 0
beacon int: 100
If you all have some suggestions on this, Id like to hear them.
And of course, any other testing you'd like too.
>
> Hope this helps to get native Linux support for 8361p.
hear hear.
FWIW, I pulled this card out of a dead Netgear WNR854T,
which is linux based (and GPL compliant)
> Regards,
> - Sedat -
>
> P.S.: BTW, only to clarify it should be "e_n_i" as short-form for
> /etc/network/interfaces file, but e_n_a sounds more female and nicer
> :-).
I caught that, but it wasnt worth "correcting" ;-)
thanks
Jim
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