> I'm currently investigating a newer ar6000 wireless driver in the hopes > to improve connection stability that's reported all too often on the > forums. I hope to provide a custom radio firmware build to those > willing to risk it, after that's complete.
I am willing to help with this project, seeing as I am suffering with 4 SBs, 2 UEs (all running 7.7.3 r16676), 2 pcs and 2 RPis, running squeezeplay. All 6 SBs lose connectivity within a few minutes. The one in the basement stays on longer. I have tried many things, routers, frequencies. I have about 50 devices on my LAN with now 3 APs. Plus Bluetooth phones and "speakers." I am about to turn them all off to see what happens. But the system needs to be robust with this environment. No other devices have issues. My test SB runs AR6000.ko 150911 with athwlan.bin 177073, calData_ar6102_15dBm.bin 768, data.patch.hw2_0.bin 836 and eeprom.AR6002 19454 (bytes instead of version #s). Inside, the chip is the Atheros AR6102G-BH2D 2011 week 31. wmiconfig reports the regulatory domain to be 0x60 or "WOR0_WORLD." This chip seems to be fairly capable. I guess that it is running in 6002 mode, whatever that is. My issue with the current driver/udchpc/supplicant combo is that it backs rates off too quickly, sometimes reverts to 169 autoconfig ip address, loses association, then just sits there forever until system reboot. I don't believe anything is unloading and reloading the driver, or restarting it somehow. I am going to try to find the serial port and monitor it. Perhaps I can restart the wlan using the shell. If that is possible, and if that does not result in disruption, or at least resumption of normal operation, that might be something. But of course the system should work without doing this. Have you tried fiddling with "wmiconfig?" There seem to be a few settings there that might be relevant. Also, if you are interested, I could post what I have done so far. A list of things to not bother with? Anyway, I am willing to test or develop, although I haven't done wifi before. And, is there a better forum or topic for this project? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POMdev's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70558 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111663 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
