CT 4.2 kernel now supports 80Mhz IBSS

[Jorge Baranda]

Dear Ben,

I confirm that with the latest CT kernel 4.2.0 and the last versions of 
iw and wpa_supplicant, IBSS connection can be set to 80MHz channel 
bandwidth.

Thanks,

Jordi

El 28/09/15 08:24, Jorge Baranda escribió:
> Hi Ben, Harms,
>
> Thank you very much for the information.
> I will try it. I hope I can set the link to 80MHz with the new kernel.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> El 25/09/2015 a las 18:01, Ben Greear escribió:
>> On 09/25/2015 12:56 AM, Jorge Baranda wrote:
>>> Hi Harms,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your aclaration. I was trying to follow your 
>>> setup with the CT kernel 4.0, but with no success, so after the post 
>>> of Ben, I imagine I
>>> have to install CT 4.2 kernel.
>>> By the way, I suppose that I have already this patch in my folder of 
>>> the kernel 4.2 since I downloaded it from git (17/09/15) after you 
>>> made your post. Just in
>>> case, could you point me out to the patch you are refering to?
>>> Other thing,  which CT firmware are you using (mine Release14)? 
>>> Additionally, could you share your .config file for the CT 4.2 
>>> kernel? I'm having some troubles
>>> to make this kernel running and I am a little confused.
>>
>> Please grab the latest CT 4.2 kernel, I rebased the last 10 or so 
>> patches a day or two ago:
>>
>> # This first command blows away the first 20 commits, so if you have
>> # added your own patches, then you need to deal with that properly.
>>
>> git reset --hard HEAD~20
>> git pull
>>
>> The configs I use are in ./configs/
>>
>> In particular, the patch I added to enable HT80 IBSS was this:
>>
>> http://dmz2.candelatech.com/?p=linux-4.2.dev.y/.git;a=commit;h=c620066342699f63dcdd00ce5f4d0feb4f02b1fc 
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Jordi
>>>
>>>
>>> El 25/09/15 09:47, Harms, Hannes escribió:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> yes, I was able to get 80 MHz IBSS working with CT 4.2 , but
>>>> I also  integrated the missing patch to my kernel  even before Ben 
>>>> mentioned that the patch was missing.
>>>> I also forgot that I made this change, sorry
>>>>
>>>> Regards Hannes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 25.09.2015 um 08:48 schrieb Jorge Baranda:
>>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine, I am one of the guys you are refering to.
>>>>> Within the thread "WLE600VX from PCEngines", I was trying to make 
>>>>> working a HT80 IBSS connection with wpa_supplicant, but this 
>>>>> connection was only set to 20MHz.
>>>>> I was trying this with the 4.0 kernel, the 10.1.467-ct-14 firmware 
>>>>> and the last version (git) of wpa_supplicant (2.5). By the way, 
>>>>> has anyone tried this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, due to this failure, I tried kernel 4.2 because Hannes Harm 
>>>>> reported success to set HT80 IBSS. But I was not able to configure 
>>>>> properly this kernel
>>>>> (compile OK, but the computer does not boot then).
>>>>>
>>>>> @Ben, could you share a .config file for kernel 4.2? Do you think 
>>>>> that Release14 CT firmware would be able to work? I will update 
>>>>> the 4.2 kernel, compile it
>>>>> and try to see
>>>>> if I can set up the HT80 IBSS connection.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jorge
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> El 24/09/15 01:56, Ben Greear escribió:
>>>>>> I forget exactly all who was asking for this...but hopefully
>>>>>> they are reading this list...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was missing a patch that allowed HT80 IBSS in my 4.2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The beta-15 CT firmware appears to do HT80 IBSS just fine
>>>>>> with the 4.2 kernel now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have not attempted to enable this feature on my 4.0 kernel yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please also note, I've been hacking on rate-ctrl logic in both 4.0
>>>>>> and 4.2 kernels (and beta-15 firmware)..so if you try it and find
>>>>>> something weird, especially in probe requests or association 
>>>>>> requests,
>>>>>> please do let me know.  Notes of success are welcome as well of 
>>>>>> course!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.candelatech.com/ath10k.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dmz2.candelatech.com/git/gitweb.cgi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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