AR6003 concurrent AP+STA

Attila Sukosd attila at airtame.com
Mon Jan 19 06:24:49 PST 2015


Hi Nick,

Sounds awesome, looking forward to testing it :-) We have the fw-4 I
believe, so that's probably not a problem.

Best,
Attila

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Stevens, Nick
<Nick.Stevens at etherios.com> wrote:
> Hi Attila,
>
> Thanks for poking me - I meant to message the mailing list earlier.
>
> It turns out that in order to get concurrent mode, the fw-4 firmware is needed. The latest firmware available in the linux-firmware repo is fw-3. Some additional patches to the driver were also needed to get everything working.
>
> My plan is to get the patches we created submitted to upstream. I am also checking within our company to see if I can make the patches available now through our GitHub account. I'll message the mailing list when that's available.
>
> Thanks!
> Nick
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Attila Sukosd [mailto:attila at airtame.com]
>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:29 AM
>> To: Stevens, Nick
>> Cc: ath6kl at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: AR6003 concurrent AP+STA
>>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> Did you have some success with this?
>> Looking to do the same here too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Attila
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Stevens, Nick <Nick.Stevens at etherios.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am attempting to use an AR6003 in a concurrent AP/station mode. Using
>> the iw tool to try and add a second virtual interface gives me the
>> following error:
>> >   > iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0_ap type __ap
>> >     ath6kl: Not a supported interface type
>> >
>> > I get the same thing for "managed" and "station" types.
>> >
>> > I've traced the error back into the kernel to a check against available
>> VIFs. It seems that the driver is being loaded with "1" for the max_vif's,
>> which is strange since I know this device supports AP+STA.
>> >
>> > In short - can anyone provide any information about putting the AR6003
>> into concurrent AP+STA mode? Is this even possible with the in-kernel
>> firmware and driver?
>> >
>> > Nick Stevens
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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