A milestone has been reached. It has taken a while, but a compiled ar6000.ko device driver is now semi-working. This has been delayed by what was the seemingly simple precedent task of updating the mitigation script taking until last week. Also, the whole poky, bitbake recipe thing and insanely long paths were just daunting.
The driver provides a working connection that plays music. When used with the original firmware, it complains about not allowed ioctls used by iwconfig, hesitating, then reporting 0 signal strength, noise and other statistics. It returns all zeros to the wmiconfig –getTargetStats, and other oddities. Also Squeezeplay reports "no link," although it shows connections to myscqueezebox.com and the local LMS. The Squeezeplay ui is sluggish, although top reported the usual ~60% cpu. Also, the radio was having trouble finding the remote -65 dBm access point despite any "full reset" of unloading and reloading the driver. This has not happened before, although it may be a coincidence. Interestingly, wmiconfig --version does work, reporting: Driver Rev = 0x22010097(2.2.1.151), ROM Rev = 0x20000188(2.0.0.392), Firmware Rev = 0x2102003e(2.1.2.62) The mitigation script calls iwconfig, resulting in irritating serial console messages, so a new logging script gaplog.sh was created to just log outages and recoveries. The affected radio has both a serial and Ethernet connection, so a wlan failure is no problem, and will be monitored and compared to the other radios for outages, and possible recovery measures that work. Now that the host software is compiled and can be debugged, a more thorough investigation into the wireless connectivity loss root causes and early mitigation strategies can be made. First, though, the compiled driver has to be made 100% compatible with the hardware and Squeezeplay, and, perhaps, with the mitigation script. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POMdev's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70558 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111663
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