Tony T wrote: > Thanks for your work on wlanpoke. > I suspect that the wireless issue will not be able to be satisfactory > resolved by the CBRF as I think it is an issue with the old chip and not > a software issue, so an Ethernet connection (with or without the Vonets > dongle) or wlanpoke will be solution to the problem. >From what I can read about the chip, it seems pretty capable. It is controlled by firmware for the chip's xtensa processor that the driver or a support utility downloads to the chip. This firmware is proprietary, and its source and environment more than very unlikely to be released, because then hackers could do things like increase power, operate on frequencies outside the 2.4 gHz unlicensed band, etc., activities of which the FCC and other authorities take a dim view.
That said, there are clues that the driver or user mode client apps (wpa_supplicant or wpa_cli) might be involved, and not the chip or its firmware, or at least that they could detect and mitigate a lost connection much quicker than wlanpoke's ping test every couple seconds. (It still might be good to have the ping test, as a fail-safe.) One "smoking gun" is suggested by the Atheros utility 'recEvent,' which reports driver events in a voluminous stream of messages. These stop well before the connection seems lost, then resume immediately after the "hard reset" process first kills wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli, and continue until the driver is finally unloaded. The next task is to discover why the messages stop, which shouldn't be that hard (famous last words). Perhaps one of these apps is crashing, not too hard to fix. Don't give up hope! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
