Does 99x0 support mesh mode?

Yu-Chieh jay0607 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 10:44:23 PDT 2016


Thanks Chun-Yeow,

I am focus on 99x0. so i don't consider 988x.
BTW, thanks for confirm the firmware of 988x supports RAM mode.

Jay

2016-07-10 0:26 GMT+08:00 Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow at gmail.com>:
> You can try the hardware using QCA988X.
>
> ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware ver 10.2.4.70.52 api 5 features
> no-p2p,raw-mode,mfp crc32 67c4d25c
> ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 cal otp max-sta
> 128 raw 1 hwcrypto 1
>
> ----
> Chun-Yeow
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Yu-Chieh <jay0607 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Chun-Yeow
>>
>> Try the firmware on https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
>> the firmware still not support RAW mode
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> 2016-07-09 23:15 GMT+08:00 Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow at gmail.com>:
>>> 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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