Link can't get estabilished over RB911AC boards

[Ben Greear]

On 09/21/2015 12:57 PM, Alessandro Bolletta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two Mikrotik RB911AC boards (radio based on QCA9882) in which I injected OpenWRT 15.05 and ath10k.
>
> I managed to get them connected in AP/STA configuration in a very short (2 meters) distance, but when I try to connect them on 5 kilometers, even if I set the distance parameter on OpenWRT's UCI config files properly, it tries to connect but after 3 retries, it declares unauthenticated.
>
> No problem with the same firmware on ath9k, for example.
> Signal is stable at -62 dbm, I also tried to change channels and push tx power, but nothing helped to do the trick.
> Also tried with every firmware combination (10.2.4, CT firmware, 999.999.0.636, 10.1.467.2-1), without success.
>
> Is there anybody who can tell me why? Could it be due to the kernel version (i'm running on 3.18.21)?

You probably need to adjust ack timings.  I have some un-tested firmware
support for this in the CT firmware, but I haven't fully wired it up to
the driver.

Someone with a bit of time and skill could add this to the ath10k
driver if they wanted to.  This commit has some details.

http://dmz2.candelatech.com/?p=linux-4.0.dev.y/.git;a=commit;h=abd3ee5c4d297e56b854864624152f5704c5df20

Thanks,
Ben

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