Does 99x0 support mesh mode?

Yeoh Chun-Yeow yeohchunyeow at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 08:15:43 PDT 2016


Take a look on the firmware here for your hardware and see how:
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware

Regards,
Chun-Yeow

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Yu-Chieh <jay0607 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, i think it's not supported now
> # iw phy phy0 interface add mp0 type mp mesh_id MeshNetwork
> # ifconfig mp0 up
> [  289.502405] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: 10.4 wmi init: vdevs: 16  peers: 528  ti
> d: 132
> [  289.510058] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: msdu-desc: 1424  skid: 32
> [  289.604802] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: must load driver with rawmode=1 to add m
> esh interfaces
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
>
> then, i tried insmod ath10k_core.ko with rawmode=1, i got probe fw
> fail log as following
> [  350.779002] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: rawmode = 1 requires support from firmwa
> re
> [  350.786294] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: fatal problem with firmware features: -2
> 2
> [  350.793575] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: could not probe fw (-22)
>
> Jay
>
> 2016-07-09 10:57 GMT+08:00 Yu-Chieh <jay0607 at gmail.com>:
>> i have checked firmware firmware-5.bin_10.4.3.00063-1 on codeaurora
>>
>> regarding ram mode, i think it's not supported
>> <6>[232109.383248] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: firmware ver 10.4.3.00063
>> api 5 features no-p2p,peer-flow-ctrl crc32 a0d385ce
>> <6>[232110.836979] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id
>> 1:1 crc32 77b2338a
>> <4>[232113.369117] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: 10.4 wmi init: vdevs: 16
>> peers: 528  tid: 132
>> <4>[232113.376857] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: msdu-desc: 1424  skid: 32
>> <6>[232113.452238] ath10k_pci 0003:01:00.0: htt-ver 2.2 wmi-op 6
>> htt-op 4 cal otp max-sta 512 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
>>
>> regarding wmi_service, i have checked
>> /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath10k/wmi_services
>> WMI_SERVICE_MESH_11S                     -
>> WMI_SERVICE_MESH_NON_11S                 enabled
>>
>> Any one knows MESH_NON_11S ?
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> 2016-07-09 1:48 GMT+08:00 Peter Oh <poh at codeaurora.org>:
>>>
>>> On 07/08/2016 10:15 AM, Yeoh Chun-Yeow wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Make sure the firmware has the raw mode feature bit enabled to support
>>>> mesh.
>>>
>>> In addition to that, you may check out wmi_services (cat
>>> /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/ath10k/wmi_services) if
>>> WMI_SERVICE_MESH_11S is set to enabled which means 11s mesh supported in
>>> native Wi-Fi mode.
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Chun-Yeow
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Yu-Chieh <jay0607 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if current firmware support mesh mode(802.11s) on 99x0?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jay
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>> Peter



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