frankd wrote: > Unfortunately I have joined this club recently when a neighbor upgraded > to a Wifi6 (ax) network. ... > - In my case the driver for the wifi equipment seems to crash - I can > only recover when rebooting the radio, no chance to change the network > once it crashed (without reboot).... > ... > 1.) The best solution would be if the community firmware could tackle > this problem. I am not sure if the drivers are open source and somebody > can address this. From my perspective this will be the only long-term > sustainable solution > ...
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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POMdev's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70558 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
