ath10k bug in station mode with regard to TX-BEAMFORMER?

[Sebastian Gottschall]

Am 03.03.2017 um 01:22 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> On 2 March 2017 at 16:08, Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> wrote:
>> Am 03.03.2017 um 00:30 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>>> On 2 March 2017 at 14:53, Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Did you patch supplicant?  If so, can you point me to the change(s) you
>>>>> made?
>>>> nope. i just used its features. there is a config entry named "vht_capa"
>>>> and
>>>> "vht_capa_mask" which allows to mask out / in vht capabilities
>>> RIght, but you just disabled the capabilities entirely, right? That
>>> didn't fix negotiation?
>> there wasnt a problem with negotiation.  there was a problem with firmware
>> crashes and yes i disabled the crash cause in that way
> Well, the crash is a bad case of "I shouldn't handle a broken AP by crashing."
>
> But an AP shouldn't be saying "mu-beamformee" according to the
> standard, but mu-beamformer. (or the other way around, I forget - but
> whatever Ben showed me, it was certainly announcing the /opposite/ of
> what it should be doing.)
good to know. then the cause for that issue might be also the hostapd 
config since openwrt as well as my dd-wrt does include all vht capabilities
in hostapd.conf which are reported by the driver. now one question. why 
does hostapd allow to set MU-BEAMFORMEE since its a ap authenticator?
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> -adrian
>


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