Support of 802.11k
Stefan Feirer
e0926020 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Jun 2 00:27:05 PDT 2016
Hello,
I'm currently working on my master thesis at vienna university of
technology.
Topic of my work is building a prototype to measure wifi roaming
performance with 802.11k (Radio Resouce Management) and 802.11r protocol
amendments.
My hardware setup uses the PCIe Wifi Card Compex WLE600VX with QCA9882
Chipset and ath10k_pci kernel module.
Operating System is Ubuntu 15.10 with Kernel Version 4.2.
With my setup 802.11r is working well with wpa_supplicant but I'm not
able to get 802.11k working.
As I already mentioned I'm using the ath10k kernel module with firmware
version 10.2.4.45.
I suppose 802.11k (RRM) is not working because it is not supported by
the firmware.
The reason of my guess is the following:
When I looked through the ath10k source code for RRM support I found out
that in the file wmi.c there are the structs
- wmi_cmd_map
- wmi_10x_cmd_map
- wmi_10_2_4_cmd_map
In the last two the function bcn_tmpl_cmdid and prb_tmpl_cmdid both are
not supported (and I use firmware version 10.2.4) and these use the
struct wmi_bcn_prb_info (wmi.h) which includes the rrm info.
This leads me to two questions:
- Am I right, that the firmware does not support 802.11k or should
802.11k be supported by the QCA9882 Chipset and the atheros firmware and
kernel modules?
- Are there any atheros wifi modules which were successfully tested with
802.11k?
Hopefully someone can help me with this!
Thanks
Stefan Feirer
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