DFS fails with QCA6174 and QCA9377
The Dark Avenger
darkavenger at fastmail.fm
Sat May 21 07:19:20 PDT 2016
Hello,
I'm currently trying to set-up an AP in the 5 GHz band. I have a QCA6174
(Killer 1525) and a QCA9377 adapter at hand.
Unfortunately, while both cards work otherwise well, e.g. I can create
an AP in the 2.4 GHz range, ACS works, anything requiring DFS fails:
>hostapd v. 2.5:
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wlp4s0: DFS-CAC-START freq=5580 chan=116 sec_chan=1, width=1, seg0=122,
seg1=0, cac_time=60s
nl80211: Start radar detection (CAC) 5580 MHz (ht_enabled=1,
vht_enabled=1, bandwidth=80 MHz, cf1=5610 MHz, cf2=0 MHz)
nl80211: Failed to start radar detection: -16 (Device or resource busy)
DFS start_dfs_cac() failed, -1
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Needless to say that the same thing happens on other channel, too, and
that there're no channels requiring no DFS.
iw list
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...
* 5240 MHz [48] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 5260 MHz [52] (20.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection)
DFS state: usable (for 607 sec)
DFS CAC time: 60000 ms
...
* 5700 MHz [140] (26.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection)
DFS state: usable (for 607 sec)
DFS CAC time: 60000 ms
* 5720 MHz [144] (disabled)
...
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I compiled kernel 4.5.3 with DFS support, as seems to be confirmed by
dmesg (see dfs 1):
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[ 6.020482] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: firmware: direct-loading
firmware ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-5.bin
[ 6.020500] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qca6174 hw2.1 target 0x05010000
chip_id 0x003405ff sub 1a56:1525
[ 6.020505] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 0
tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 0
[ 6.021159] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: firmware ver
SW_RM.1.1.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 5 features ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad
crc32 10bf8e08
[ 6.128659] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: firmware: direct-loading
firmware ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-2.bin
[ 6.129021] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A
crc32 ae2e275a
[ 7.331373] ath10k_pci 0000:04:00.0: htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3
cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
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For completeness iw get reg
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country DE: DFS-ETSI
(2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)
(5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
(5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS
(5470 - 5725 @ 160), (N/A, 26), (0 ms), DFS
(57000 - 66000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)
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The only thing that worries me is that "iw list" does not report any
"radar detect widths".|.
|So, I am somewhat clueless where the problem lies. Is it driver,
firmware, or something else?
Thanks
Roland
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