Trouble connecting to broadcom AC APs?

[Janusz Dziedzic]

On 21 March 2014 18:41, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/2014 12:07 AM, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
>> On 21 March 2014 07:01, Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic at tieto.com> wrote:
>>> On 20 March 2014 20:23, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>>>> On 03/20/2014 12:17 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>>> Did the per-rate transmit statistics ever make it into the firmware / driver?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd start by looking at what rate(s) it's trying and what the transmit
>>>>> completion statistics say. It could be doing something exceedingly
>>>>> dumb like transmitting on an invalid rate or stream setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> Same deal with STBC/LDPC. Try disabling those; see what happens.
>>>>
>>>> It appears the packets get to the AP, and AP at least tries to
>>>> respond.
>>>>
>>>> If we bring up stations one at a time instead of multiple at once
>>>> it works better, and using ddwrt works better than stock firmware
>>>> on the AP too.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know how well monitor mode works on ath10k?  Would be nice
>>>> to see what is actually on the air.
>>>>
>>> With AP firmware, works fine. Could you send airlogs?
>>>
>> BTW, I have same problem with WRT54G and orginal linksys SW - my home router.
>> Problem disappears when will use FW 636 :)
>> So, seems AP (389, 467) FW is not the best choice for STA mode.
>> I suspect PS problem here - but didn't check this yet ...
>
> Here is another data point...if we make br0 on the AP promisc,
> then suddenly it works fine.
>
> (we noticed this because starting tcpdump on br0 also
> 'fixes' the problem).
>

In my case:

ath10k: ath10k_peer_assoc_h_crypto: rsn ie found
ath10k: ath10k_peer_assoc_h_crypto: wpa ie found
ath10k: mac peer 00:14:bf:16:b8:44 phymode 11g

Next tx don't work because, FW discard this packets for some reason
(at least broadcast), I see a lot of:
ath10k: htt tx completion msdu_id 0 discard 1 no_ack 0

while with 636 firmware
ath10k: htt tx completion msdu_id 0 discard 0 no_ack 0

So, could be quite different issue you have. I will check switch to
CCMP only while now there is TKIP/CCMP.

BR
Jansuz