Yeoh, On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Javier Cardona <jav...@cozybit.com> wrote: > I think the first step is to confirm the assumption that beaconing in > mesh mode is broken.
Confirmed. With debugging enabled, ath9k spits the following when the mesh interface is brought up: [336431.404050] ath: STA vif's beacon not allowed on AP mode Javier On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Javier Cardona <jav...@cozybit.com> wrote: > Hi Yeoh, > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Yeoh Chun Yeow <yeohchuny...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, Javier >> I have confirmed the combination of ath9k and 802.11s in >> compat-wireless-2011-04-06 is working. But not compat-wireless-2010-4-19. >> Can you pinpoint where should we look into in the ath9k source code in case >> somethings wrong with 802.11s. > > If I knew exactly what could be wrong with the ath9k driver I would > fix it right away :) > I think the first step is to confirm the assumption that beaconing in > mesh mode is broken. > Just try to start an open mesh and observe with a sniffer if you see > beacons coming from that interface: > > iw phy $phy interface add mesh0 type mesh > ifconfig mesh0 up > iw dev mesh0 mesh join testfoo > <beaconing should have started by now> > > If you don't, you should look into the part of the driver that enables > beaconing: ath_beacon_config() and so on. > Did you ask in ath9k-devel? If basic mesh functionality is broken, > they should be able to help. Specially if there is a very easy test > like the one described above. This is unrelated to the new security > features. And as you've seen, it work on ath5k (hint: telling the > ath9k guys that something works on ath5k is a very good way to get > their attention };) > > Javier > > > >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Yeoh Chun Yeow <yeohchuny...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> It seems that the current trunk version of OpenWRT using >>> compat-wireless-2010-04-19 works well ath5k and not ath9k. I switch to >>> 802.11b/g/a network card and ath5k with same setup and it works. >>> >> >> > > > > -- > Javier Cardona > cozybit Inc. > http://www.cozybit.com > -- Javier Cardona cozybit Inc. http://www.cozybit.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.open80211s.org http://open80211s.com/mailman/listinfo/devel
