Which Firmware to use for STA (999.x crashes...)

[Ben Greear]

Candela firmware should work just fine for stations.

And, when reporting throughput, you should also provide details
about how you tested (tool, protocol, over-the-air or not, AP
involved, etc).

Thanks,
Ben


On 05/01/2015 08:38 AM, richard mayers wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I need to do some 802.11ac measurements. For that I am using the
> Compex wle900vx.
> 
> I had a set up in which everything was working quite well, however I
> had a maximum throughput of 380Mbits/s ( with all the debug options
> enabled )
> 
> In this first set up I had been using ubuntu 14.04 LTS, kernel version
> 3.16, for the driver I used the latest stable backport (3.19) and
> finally as a firmware the commercial firmware from Candela Tech
> (latest version) in both the AP and STA.
> 
> However, I read in the wiki that the latest firmware version for AP is
> the 10.2.4.48, and the Stations should use 999.999.0.63. For this
> second set up I changed almost everything:
> 
> - Upgraded kernel to 4.0.1
> - Backported drivers from the git Modinfo output -> (backported from
> Linux (v3.2-rc1-243765-ga2ff7c6) using backports
> backports-20150424-2-g982)
> 
> AP : 10.2.4.48 firmware
> STA : Following the wiki : 999.999.0.63
> 
> During boot the firmware is loaded without any problem:
> 
> ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 (0x4100016c, 0x043202ff) fw
> 999.999.0.636 api 2 htt 2.1 wmi 1 cal otp max_sta 16
> 
> However when I associate with the AP, the firmware crashes.
> 
> [11831.954992] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: firmware crashed! (uuid n/a)
> [11831.955031] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 (0x4100016c,
> 0x043202ff) fw 999.999.0.636 api 2 htt 2.1 wmi 1 cal otp max_sta 16
> [11831.955039] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 0 tracing 0
> dfs 0 testmode 0
> [11831.957059] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: firmware register dump:
> [11831.957068] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [00]: 0x4100016C 0x00000000
> 0x009C4521 0x00000000
> [11831.957076] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [04]: 0x009C4521 0x00060530
> 0x00000019 0x00955A00
> [11831.957084] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [08]: 0x00306862 0x00000000
> 0x0040CC94 0x00000020
> [11831.957091] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [12]: 0x00000000 0x00000000
> 0x00958360 0x0095836B
> [11831.957098] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [16]: 0x80991091 0x0040AD94
> 0x0043155C 0x00000000
> [11831.957106] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [20]: 0x0000FFFF 0x00000000
> 0x0043155C 0x00000000
> [11831.957114] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [24]: 0x809A0978 0x0040AD94
> 0x00439484 0xC1A18834
> [11831.957121] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [28]: 0x809AD1A2 0x0040ADE4
> 0x00439484 0x0043FB1C
> [11831.957129] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [32]: 0x809B35A3 0x0000001A
> 0x00440A50 0x0000000E
> [11831.957136] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [36]: 0x00000000 0x00000000
> 0x00000000 0x00000000
> [11831.957143] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [40]: 0x00000000 0x00000000
> 0x00000000 0x00000094
> [11831.957151] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [44]: 0x00439DC8 0x00000000
> 0x00000000 0x00400000
> [11831.957158] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [48]: 0x809AE0B4 0x0040AE04
> 0x00400000 0x0043FB1C
> [11831.957166] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [52]: 0x00000001 0x00000000
> 0x00423410 0x00400000
> [11831.957173] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: [56]: 0x809AE17E 0x0040AE44
> 0x0040FE6C 0x0040D310
> [11832.046908] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: failed to synchronize monitor
> vdev 1 stop: -108
> [11832.046915] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: failed to stop monitor vdev: -108
> 
>  I have seen that in the past a lot of people had problems with this
> firmware but since years have passed maybe the way of solving have
> evolved.
> 
> Apart from that I also got the 00:03:07:12:34:56 MAC address issue.
> 
> Any ideas guys? Should I use the candelatech firmware for the stations ?
> Richard
> 
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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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