Problems Configuring VHT160 and VHT80+80 for QCA9984

[Robert Jones]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Gottschall
<s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> wrote:
> Am 12.01.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Ben Greear:
>>
>>
>> On 01/11/2018 05:46 PM, Robert Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm working with a WLE1216V5-20 ath10k wave 2 card using QCA9984
>>> chipset and having problems configuring an AP for VHT160 or 80+80
>>> mode. The hostapd v2.6 tool in both cases tells me that the "Driver
>>> does not support configured VHT capability".
>>>
>>> I'm using the custom board and firmware .bin files found at
>>> http://www.candelatech.com/ath10k-10.4.php. I see on the same page
>>> that they recommend using one of Ben Greear's kernels but I would
>>> prefer to stick with a mainline 4.14 if possible.
>>>
>>> Is this capability truly missing from the ath10k driver or am I
>>> misconfiguring something in my hostapd.conf?
>>>
>>> If the former, can anyone point me to a patch set that I can apply to
>>> the ath10k driver to support either of these two modes?
>>
>>
>> Early on there was bugs in stock firmware for how it did VHT160
>> vs how the driver thought it did.  I ended up fixing the CT firmware
>> to match closer to how the driver wanted it done at the time, but
>> I think that the driver has since changed.
>>
>> I have not had time (nor much interest) to try to make my firmware work
>> again with stock
>> driver for VHT160.
>>
>> Either way, VHT160 is almost completely worthless because it can only
>> do 2x2 at VHT160, which is no faster than VHT80 at 4x4 but uses twice
>> as much bandwidth.

Right, I definitely agree. I suppose I just wanted to test my
configuration in case one of our customers asked for an example.
This is a strong argument regarding this card though.

>
> remember my patch to get it to work with stock firmware :-)
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Robert Jones
>>>
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>>
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