attempting mesh on ath10k

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Sun Apr 26 08:42:37 PDT 2015


On 04/26/2015 07:15 AM, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 06:38:02PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I have IBSS support working, and at least non-encrypted raw transmit
>> can work in my firmware, though raw tx requires Michal's RFC patch
>> he posted some time ago.
>
> (Michal's RFC patch is in my repo.)
>
> So I got a bit further.  I was still getting a crash with CT firmware, but,
> suspecting that we pass something invalid in assoc message for mesh, I forced
> peer->aid = 1 and then it no longer crashes shortly after adding the first
> peer on either CT or QCA firmware.

Please send me the crash dump...and let me know the firmware version if the
info is not in the dump.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> I pushed that hack into my repo for now -- I think we want to rethink how and
> when AIDs are generated in mesh.
>
> # iw dev wlan0 station dump
> Station 00:03:7f:10:4e:2d (on wlan0)
>          inactive time:  400 ms
>          rx bytes:       34019
>          rx packets:     959
>          tx bytes:       152
>          tx packets:     3
>          tx retries:     0
>          tx failed:      0
>          signal:         -27 dBm
>          signal avg:     -26 dBm
>          tx bitrate:     6.0 MBit/s
>          rx bitrate:     9.0 MBit/s
>          mesh llid:      220
>          mesh plid:      455
>          mesh plink:     ESTAB
>          mesh local PS mode:     ACTIVE
>          mesh peer PS mode:      ACTIVE
>          mesh non-peer PS mode:  ACTIVE
>          authorized:     yes
>          authenticated:  yes
>          preamble:       long
>          WMM/WME:        yes
>          MFP:            no
>          TDLS peer:      no
>
> So, progress!
>
> There's still an issue with datapath -- while it looks like we can establish
> plinks, I couldn't get unicast traffic flowing even if manually setting up
> mpaths and arp table entries.  I haven't yet got all of my 5 ghz capable gear
> in the same room to monitor and see where the problem lies.
>


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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