POMdev wrote: > I was working on this issue last summer 2020, posting on the > "Community-Build-Radio-Firmware" forum. Firmware modification was > stymied by no access to the Atheros 6002 chip driver code. Also, I could > not get the Docker build system to work. I realized that the > disconnection issues likely originate not in the OS driver, but rather > deeper in the chip firmware. Both the chip firmware and specifications > for the chip are proprietary, which makes it hard to reverse engineer. I > was hoping that a tweaked driver could, however, correctly restart the > wireless by detecting a failure. In experimenting, I wrote a script to > unload and reload the firmware completely, which worked, not as well as > not failing, but better than rebooting, as the music keeps playing. This > script workaround was posted on the Community-Build forum, and has had > several revisions, the latest of which is 'here' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111663-Community-Build-Radio-Firmware&p=989751&viewfull=1#post989751). > The installation requires several steps, so it was never posted to the > user forums. Here, family member complaints have ceased since installing > the workaround, which has reduced the motivation to work on really > fixing the wireless issue. > > The worst performing radio (because of location) and dedicated bg-only > access point was instrumented with an Ethernet packet sniffer on the > access point, a wireless sniffer on the channel, and a spectrum analyzer > tuned to the channel with a continuous video capture saved for later > analysis. You can read about this 'here' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111663-Community-Build-Radio-Firmware&p=990627&viewfull=1#post990627). > Actually, the entire forum is an interesting read.
Interesting read. Can a plug-in be created for this script? Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Nelson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
