On 09/05/2016 10:56 AM, Xuebing Wang wrote:
On 08/24/2016 02:13 PM, Michal Kazior wrote:
On 24 August 2016 at 05:57, Xuebing Wang <xbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kalle,
I cloned your ath10k-firmware from your github. Would you please
advise what
are the differences of hw2.1/firmware-5 and hw3.0/firmware-4 for
qca6174?
Does hw3.0/firmware-4 support Monitor Mode?
I have a wlan card with BMI version (QCA6174_HW_2_1_VERSION
0x05010000) and
Monitor Mode works no problem with latest kernel v4.8-rc2.
I have another wlan card with (QCA6174_HW_3_2_VERSION 0x05030000). I am
trying to back-port ath10k from v4.8-rc2 to 3.10.73 for this HW_3_2
QCA6174
wlan card. Virtual interface (mon0) can be added and brought-up, but
tcpdump
can not capture any packets. I am wondering if it could be related to
(hw2.1/firmware-5 vs hw3.0/firmware-4)?
Official hw3.x's firmware supports full rx offload. Rx event used to
deliver frames is very specialized effectively preventing sniffing /
monitor operation.
I don't know if there's any way around it without getting your hands
on firmware build that doesn't have the full rx offload compiled in
(assuming such a build even exists).
Michał
Hi Michal,
I confirm hw3.0 firmware does not support monitor mode, on kernel
4.8.0-rc2.
I got one Killer 1535 wlan card (with qca6174 hw3.2), monitor mode
does not work. I do use monitor mode on hw2.1 qca6174 and ath9k many
times.
dmesg shows:
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qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
firmware ver WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 4 features
wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 75dee6c5
board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 46b57247
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Also, I can not set hw3.x firmware monitor mode to a specific freq as
below. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.1 with kernel 4.8.0-rc2.
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$ sudo iw dev mon0 set freq 2462
$ iwconfig mon0
mon0 IEEE 802.11 Mode:Monitor Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
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HI Kalle,
Do you consider this hw3.0 firmware does not support monitor mode a
firmware bug?
Thanks.
Hi Kalle,
For unknown reasons, previous email bounced back. It did successfully
went to ath10k mailing list.
Do you consider this hw3.0 firmware does not support monitor mode a
firmware bug, or do you see any chance to add a way to configure
firmware to enable Monitor Mode? Thanks.
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Xuebing
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