Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Support 4.9Ghz channels on AR9580 adapter.

2016-06-21 Thread Jouni Malinen
? And if so, what are those use cases? Or is this only for some public safety cases? And if so, for which regulatory domains? To be frank, I really don't see how this would be even close to a state that should be accepted into the upstream tree. -- Jouni Mal

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2] ath9k: Add support for ITS-G5 band (5.9 GHz)

2015-11-02 Thread Jouni Malinen
generate the explicit rules to enable the licensed bands and only distribute the regdb with these changes to properly licensed users) was one of the approaches discussed in the past for this type of use cases. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2] ath9k: Add support for ITS-G5 band (5.9 GHz)

2015-11-02 Thread Jouni Malinen
are somewhat in conflict with the needs of regulatory rule enforcement for most other use cases.. :) -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2] ath9k: Add support for ITS-G5 band (5.9 GHz)

2015-11-02 Thread Jouni Malinen
ld configuration parameter. We must prevent accidental use of these channels regardless of what config options a user might pick. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-26 Thread Jouni Malinen
encryption patch is concerned, I think I have enough concern on the couple of corner cases that I know it does not address (and may break), so it may take some more time before I'm ready to suggest it (or a bit modified version of it) to be applied, though. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
and rate control can handle the less critical data frames through whatever means to get optimal throughput from the network. As such, I do think we do need to paper over this for EAPOL frames. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
for the initial EAPOL frames, this results in only one attempt at MCS(0) and two + two attempts at MCS0. No non-MCS rates are tried. As pointed out previously, this is likely fine for normal data frames, but not for EAPOL. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
(if included by the AP in basic rate set). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
. I guess this could be done more generically for all EAPOL frames. - change their mrr setup to be more conservative That mrr[3]:= basic_rate is the part I was really asking for as far as EAPOL frames are concerned. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
frame with the new pairwise key. This is somewhat ugly, but doable. (Though, this would be yet another justification for finally trying to come up with an alternative mechanism for handling EAPOL frame TX/RX that is really a special case for IEEE 802.1X.) -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
handle all cases cleanly (i.e., just hope for msg 4/4 to go through and reassociate as a backup plan if things fail..). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:06:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Jouni Malinen j...@w1.fi wrote: mac80211: Do not encrypt EAPOL frames before peer has used the key Hmm. This patch does not seem to make a difference. I thought it did at first, but then removed

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
only to driver that use minstrel from mac80211 (e.g., ath9k). Though, that IEEE80211_TX_CTL_USE_MINRATE would likely affect most mac80211 drivers. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 03:00:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jouni Malinen j...@w1.fi wrote: This did not get exactly supportive response when this was proposed last time (Sep 2013). Anyway, for a quick test, this can be done with the following one

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-643 (AR5008E)

2014-02-27 Thread Jouni Malinen
couple of reconnections, stop wpa_supplicant and dumpcap. That /tmp/wlan.pcap should have most of the frames exchanged between the devices. You can then remove the monitor interface with: sudo iw mon0 del -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-643 (AR5008E)

2014-02-27 Thread Jouni Malinen
of the sniffer not seeing them rather than them not being transmitted. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k not connecting to one particular network..

2013-03-26 Thread Jouni Malinen
/failure case. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k not connecting to one particular network..

2013-03-26 Thread Jouni Malinen
special about that AP behavior that allows the issue to show up but does not show up in the wpa_supplicant debug log. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k not connecting to one particular network..

2013-03-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
an effect during the association is in power saving (buffered frames on the AP are indicated for a specific AID). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k not connecting to one particular network..

2013-03-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
this is fine here and it will include the details that would be needed to check what exactly are the differences in the 4-way handshake between NM and manual wpa_supplicant configuration cases. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k not connecting to one particular network..

2013-03-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
issues here (didn't get that far). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k not connecting to one particular network..

2013-03-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
written into a log file..) -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] Disable b mode and prioritize ack on 5 GHz

2012-09-06 Thread Jouni Malinen
not break deployed stations badly). To prevent 802.11b stations from associating: add one of the OFDM rates (say, 6 Mbps) into basic_rates parameter into hostapd.conf. To allow only HT stations, add require_ht=1 into hostapd.conf. -- Jouni MalinenPGP

Re: [ath9k-devel] compat-wireless = 2011-12-16 broken on debian 6.0

2012-01-02 Thread Jouni Malinen
version were you using in the failure case? Based on your follow up message, the current hostap.git snapshot does not have this issue which is good in itself, but still, we should not be forcing this type of user space upgrades with kernel changes without a very good reason. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] compat-wireless = 2011-12-16 broken on debian 6.0

2012-01-02 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:00:11AM +0100, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:28:30AM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: Which hostapd version were you using in the failure case? Based on your it's debian 6.0 stock version of hostapd installed via 'apt-get install hostapd'. According

Re: [ath9k-devel] Wireless stalled after a few minutes with Linux Kernel 3.1

2011-12-09 Thread Jouni Malinen
and I would recommend using WPA2 with CCMP and leaving out the PTK rekeying (which is really just a workaround for not so secure TKIP). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] Wireless stalled after a few minutes with Linux Kernel 3.1

2011-12-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
this is related to rekeying? May I ask why you have configured the station to force PTK rekeying every 10 minutes? While TKIP is not really the most secure design out there, the proper way of addressing this would be to use CCMP instead of frequent rekeying with TKIP.. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-28 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:26:53AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: Le jeudi 27 oct. 2011 à 22:27:58 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a écrit : Which drivers did you use in these tests? brcmsmac and b43 brcmsmac does not support monitor mode. b43 is claimed to support that, but I've never tried

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-27 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:13:53PM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: Le jeudi 27 oct. 2011 à 20:36:06 (+0200 CEST), Julien Valroff a écrit : Le lundi 24 oct. 2011 à 21:55:01 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a écrit : ifconfig wlan0 down iw wlan0 set type monitor iw wlan0 set channel 6 HT20

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
the capture log. If you can easily run this twice, i.e., first with the success case where the station connects as the first device and then with the failure case, this would be even more valuable since it would make it easier to compare the message sequences. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath: Fix hardware decryption of WEP

2011-08-09 Thread Jouni Malinen
dynamic WEP functionality does not sound like a good direction. If the goal here was to improve station mode functionality in the case where a single WEP network is being used, it should be done more carefully to avoid causing problems to other cases. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath: Fix hardware decryption of WEP

2011-08-09 Thread Jouni Malinen
;-). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: add module option for disabling 11n functionality

2011-06-29 Thread Jouni Malinen
to do that as a parameter for the connection (e.g., new nl80211 attribute for NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE) rather than a module parameter. This workaround seems to be needed with some APs and global disabling of 802.11n does not sound like the ideal mechanism for that. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: add module option for disabling 11n functionality

2011-06-29 Thread Jouni Malinen
to disable 802.11n. If that is done outside the scope of a single connection, that would be available as a manual workaround even without modifications to wpa_supplicant/NM/ConnMan. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: add module option for disabling 11n functionality

2011-06-28 Thread Jouni Malinen
, why would this be a driver specific hack rather than providing a shared mechanism in mac80211 to disable 802.11n support? It would sound strange if there would need to be a new module parameter in every 802.11n driver to handle something like this. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] hostapd.conf with ieee80211=n failed AR5008

2011-03-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 06:46 -0700, Duccio Mangiavacchi wrote: Hi, i add lines ieee80211n=1 ht_capab=[HT40-][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK-40] in hostapd.conf to enabled N , i have Linksys 300WP300N, with Ar5008 in AP mode master, but my laptop would use Wep now, Why? And if i use wep in AP mode n,

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR5008-AP Linksys WP300N

2011-03-22 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:35 -0700, Duccio Mangiavacchi wrote: Hi, i have an idea if in hostapd.conf it's possible to configure hw_mode=n, or automatic b,g,n? In practice, hw_mode is used to select between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. IEEE 802.11n is enabled with a separate parameter (ieee80211n=1) as

Re: [ath9k-devel] Delayed block acknowledge [DELAYED-BA]

2011-02-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:08 -0800, Thomas Andrews wrote: On 02/25/2011 06:15 PM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Andrewstandr...@grok.co.za wrote: Is DELAYED-BA implemented? need to check it out. Can you please explain what are you trying to do ? I am

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 01:15 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote: PS, if that matters: When I observe the ERFKILL status with rfkill I get a idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 every time I restart /etc/init.d/net.wlan1. Those lines are saying that WLAN (type 1) was

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 01:39 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote: Oh I'm a fool, I made a typo, the two lines that I get with rfkill event are idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0 idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 The interesting part about that is the block being soft, not hard.. In other words, this looks

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 01:58 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote: I hope I understood you correctly. If you want me to run rfkill list at the very moment between those two 132 errors, that could be difficult as they appear very quickly after eachother Yes, I think you understood correctly. However, it

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 01:55 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote: You mean capture log as in a log with wireshark? I'm really unexperienced in that field. If you could tell me what program I need I can do my best. I meant running another wireless LAN card in monitor mode (e.g.,: ifconfig wlan0 down; iw

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 03:21 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote: Why would it do that? To be frank I doubt your diagnosis at this point, how did you come to conclude that? I have no idea why it would do that; you would need to ask Gentoo developers that. I concluded this by checking what my test laptop

Re: [ath9k-devel] DMA issues with ar9280 cards

2011-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 10:20 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: in fact, I lie - it's ath9k seemingly sending two ACKs for the same frame. I don't remember having seen that and cannot really think of any reason that would cause this type of behavior. Would you happen to have a wireless capture file

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 12:46 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote: in dmesg. When I restart /etc/init.d/net.wlan1 I get, after wpa_supplicant is said to start SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 Error 132 is ERFKILL, i.e., something in the system disabled the wireless

Re: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

2011-02-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:49 -0800, Peter Stuge wrote: In my case no. I have gotten both minipci ath9k card and cardbus ath5k stuck in reporting 132 on ip l s dev .. up IIRC both after using wpa_supplicant and only using iw manually. I'm not sure what could trigger this apart from the most

Re: [ath9k-devel] Paged SKBs v/s copybreak.

2011-01-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:33 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: So, I am hoping for some guidance from the core ath9k folks. Should I attempt to fix my copybreak patch for non pci busses and re-post it? My preference would be to use multiple RX buffers to receive long frames (chain RX descriptors with

Re: [ath9k-devel] Should we remove all the virtual wiphy code from ath9k?

2011-01-20 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:27 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: Seems I saw a note a long time ago about virtual wiphy being removed sometime soon. Should we go ahead and remove it? It doesn't seem useful to me (virtual interfaces appear to work much better), and it would likely simplify the code a

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC 1/2] ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs.

2011-01-15 Thread Jouni Malinen
some kind of mechanism for the driver to override Beacon interval in such cases (which would need to go back all the way to user space to hostapd in case of AP mode). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Implement rx copy-break.

2011-01-09 Thread Jouni Malinen
perhaps be something we could tune at run-time. I guess that could be looked at, but as long as that is not the case, the test setup you used is not exactly the most common case for ath9k in the upstream kernel and should not be used to figure out default behavior. -- Jouni Malinen

Re: [ath9k-devel] Beacon reception/transmission handling

2011-01-07 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:59 -0800, Lara Deek wrote: I would please like to ask what are the relevant places for code change in ath9k for beacon reception and transmission? Also, which struct can I change to control the contents of a beacon packet? What are you trying to do? This sounds like

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k tx lockup, ath: received PCI FATAL interrupt

2011-01-07 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 13:55 -0800, Peter Stuge wrote: I normally never use wpa_supplicant. I don't accept that it would be required for a working connection and so far noone has really explained why that would be the case. Only ath9k (ie. neither ipw2200 nor ath5k) has ever made a difference

Re: [ath9k-devel] Progress on Ath9k HT support on Adhoc mode

2010-12-29 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 23:21 -0800, Robert Chan wrote: As I am implementing a project that requires a 802.11N mesh network at low (or zero actually, for a poor area deployment) budget. May I ask what is the progress in that end (mesh over 11N)? Or if I want to jump in, which part of the

Re: [ath9k-devel] Progress on Ath9k HT support on Adhoc mode

2010-12-28 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 22:32 -0800, Mohammed Shafi wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Robert Chan robert.chan.l...@gmail.com wrote: So should I assume that the details here are too updated or are the modes above are only independently supported (but not able to work together such as

Re: [ath9k-devel] vifs managementRe

2010-11-09 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 09:16 -0800, João Maurício wrote: Thanks for the advices Lorna. The thing is that when I'm associated with an AP with wlan0, when I issue echo add .../wiphy I get dissassociated after +- 10 secs. It happens even if the newly created wlan1 stays down, i.e., if I just

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: Virtual interface as AP

2010-10-27 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 04:11 -0700, Lorna González wrote: I am trying to build a virtual interface (not wiphy) operating in master mode using hostapd. Using wiphys (echo add ...wiphy) I am able to configurate a wiphy as station and another one as AP. It works perfectly but by setting the AP

Re: [ath9k-devel] Bringing up a virtual wiphy on AR9160 brings down the node

2010-07-06 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:42 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: We have a dedicated target for this, so we can quickly test patches or diffent kernel versions. May I ask what are you trying to achieve with virtual wiphys? Are you trying to do multi-channel operations? If not, some other option may be

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k-deve: add / delete virtual wiphys through iw (nl80211)

2010-05-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 02:28 -0700, Lorna González wrote: according to the nl80211_commands it is possible to add, get, set and delete wiphy using iw command like using debugfs ath9k/phy#/wiphy am I right? But I can´t use and don´t have this options in my supported commands (iw phy name

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k-deve: add / delete virtual wiphys through iw (nl80211)

2010-05-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 07:27 -0700, Rodolphe Marques wrote: That means that from the OS perspective we would see only one interface and that the mac80211 would that care of multiple associations in order to improve overall throughput? No, this would not change how the actual network devices

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/6] ath9k: do not mark frames with RXKEY_IX_INVALID as decrypted

2010-04-16 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 03:52 -0700, Johan Hovold wrote: Frames tagged by hardware with ATH9K_RXKEYIX_INVALID should not incorrectly be marked decrypted (even if key index in frame is valid). Have you tested this with static WEP configuration? Or broadcast RX with WPA? There must be a reason for

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9280 Force 5ghz or disable 2.4ghz?

2010-03-30 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 10:10 -0700, Curtis Larsen wrote: freq_list=5180,5200,5220,5240,5260,5280,5300,5320,5745,5765,5785,5805,5825 That list is space, not comma, separated (freq_list=5180 5200 5220 ...). I would assume that this particular example ends up getting interpreted as a single

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR-5008 HT support

2010-03-28 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 13:57 -0700, Ben Gamari wrote: Hostapd output with e.g. ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40] HT40: control channel: 8 secondary channel: 12 HT40 secondary channel 12 not allowed Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-1) wlan0: Unable to setup interface. I

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9280 Force 5ghz or disable 2.4ghz?

2010-03-26 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 16:16 -0700, Pavel Roskin wrote: I confirm that scan_freq is accepted by the current wpa_supplicant but has no reliable effect. Both ath5k and ath9k connected to an AP on the channel 6 when scan_freq=2412 was in the configuration file. scan_freq is not supposed to limit

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k virtual interfaces scan

2010-03-22 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 08:40 -0700, Rodolphe Marques wrote: When an interface is scanning I notice that it goes through the 5GHz channels. Is there any way to disable this, so that it only scans in the 11 channels of 11g? When using nl80211, you can specify the list of channels you want to

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9280 Force 5ghz or disable 2.4ghz?

2010-03-21 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 14:19 -0700, Curtis Larsen wrote: At my work the singleSSID supports 802.11n in the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands. Even though 2.4 ghz is slower - my laptop chooses 2.4 every time. Is there a way to force connection to 5ghz or disable 2.4ghz? I don't think there is currently

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9280 Force 5ghz or disable 2.4ghz?

2010-03-21 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 09:22 -0700, Curtis Larsen wrote: Yes, I do run wpa_supplicant. I would love to see a sample config for this -even though it sounds like it would not work in all areas across the campus. Still, better than what I have right now. All you need to do is to add scan_freq

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k in wireless-testing won't work in AP mode

2010-02-10 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:08 -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote: We have reviewed this. The 64 value came from interoperability tests against another 802.11n device which had increased delayed BlockAcks when CTS-to-self was enabled. Although this is a higher value than what the standard says to use we

Re: [ath9k-devel] mac80211/ath9k/hostapd: Some clients unable to associate with AP

2009-10-22 Thread Jouni Malinen
currently traveling and cannot easily try to reproduce this before returning home. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ath9k-devel] mac80211/ath9k/hostapd: Some clients unable to associate with AP

2009-10-22 Thread Jouni Malinen
correctly (for other than Beacon frames). -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k in bridge?

2009-10-18 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 21:08 -0700, Paul Koan wrote: But the arp doesn't make it out to the rest of the network. The ath9k card is connected to a Linksys WRT610N, flashed with dd-wrt, so I can run tcpdump on it. I don't see the arp requests coming from the media PC arrive at the wrt610N.

Re: [ath9k-devel] Multiple AP interfaces

2009-09-28 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 07:49 -0700, Philippe Fontannaz wrote: I'm trying to set up 2 AP interfaces with my AR9160/AR9106 based card in order to get both 2/5 Ghz bands available. I can see then both ssid's but the connection on either one keeps disconnecting, thus rendering this set up useless.

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 14/15] mac80211: move management / no-ack frame rate decision to mac80211

2009-06-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 23:28 -0700, Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 01:41 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: All rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta and the private rate control data is NULL. We

Re: [ath9k-devel] WMM settings and AP performance

2009-05-26 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 10:46 -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:52:41PM -0700, Jeff Hansen wrote: I found that upgrading from compat-wireless-2009-04-28 to compat-wireless-2009-05-11 caused a huge degradation in performance in AP mode. Before (with 04-28), I was able to

Re: [ath9k-devel] EEE PC with AR9280 using N mode with WPA2

2009-05-19 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:35 -0700, Gabor Juhos wrote: I have discovered some weird crashes on various embedded (MIPS, ARM) boards with 2.6.30-rc5+compat-wireless-2009-05-15. I'm not sure that is the same error but seems similar at least. The strange thing, that i saw a '0xdeadbeef' value

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k module-Unable to set channel-since ath comes

2009-05-14 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 01:35 -0700, Davide Pesavento wrote: I've already reported ath9k's issues with PS multiple times [1] [2] [3], but the driver hasn't been fixed yet. You can find a verbose debugging output at [4], I hope that helps in fixing the problem (I can provide even more info if

Re: [ath9k-devel] multiple virtual interfaces ath9k

2009-04-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 07:40 -0700, Nymerion wrote: Assuming to create multiple VSTAs on different channels, i wonder what happens to the packets that the APs they are associated with send to them when they are temporarily paused. If the frames are actually transmitted on another channel, they

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9kl multiple ssid AP

2009-04-06 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 02:35 -0700, Karl Hiramoto wrote: All of these cases seem to be working now. What other cases is software encryption needed? I do not have a full list, but most cases are in combinations of station and AP mode interfaces being used at the same time. If you are only using

Re: [ath9k-devel] hostAPd operating in 5Ghz channels

2009-04-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 01:20 -0700, Giorgio Mazzucchelli wrote: Allowed channel: mode=2 chan=36 freq=5180 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=2 chan=40 freq=5200 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=2 chan=44 freq=5220 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=2 chan=48

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9kl multiple ssid AP

2009-04-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 01:44 -0700, Karl Hiramoto wrote: 2. essid1=WPA esid2 = open. Everything works in essid1. Windows XP SP2 client can connect to essid2 but no traffic, only sends EAPOL packet. The secondary BSSes that were using open or static WEP did not work properly since the

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9kl multiple ssid AP

2009-04-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 04:37 -0700, Karl Hiramoto wrote: Another case. two WEP APs essid 1 works but essid2 does not (no traffic flow). an iwlist dev wlan0 on another machine shows the two AP's with WEP. Windows shows the WEP APs. Static WEP keys were not configured for secondary BSSes.

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9kl multiple ssid AP

2009-04-02 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 07:34 -0700, Karl Hiramoto wrote: Thanks for the info. I got it to work with an open AP. WPA is not working though. There is a hostapd error Invalid pairwise cipher (0) for a very simple config that worked for me before with one AP, and hostapd 0.6.8 Looks like you

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9kl multiple ssid AP

2009-04-01 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:46 -0700, Karl Hiramoto wrote: Hi, Thanks for all the work. I've got one AP working with kernel 2.6.29 and ath9k I was wondering if there has been any change to the multiple ssid support I see:

Re: [ath9k-devel] Adhoc-demo support in ath9k

2009-03-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 09:30 -0700, ming li wrote: I just want to avoid the control pkts/mechanisms(association, probe, etc.) in adhoc-mode. Is there any easy way to disable these functions in ath9k? No, like I mentioned, this type of change is not in scope for ath9k and such changes would

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 00/15] ath9k: Virtual interfaces and radios

2009-03-10 Thread Jouni Malinen
it will be useful to know if these show up in a configuration that someone would like to use. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ath9k: fix compile errors

2009-03-06 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 00:57 -0800, Gabor Juhos wrote: This set will correct two compilation errors in master-2009-03-04 of wireless-testing. Thanks for fixing these and the no-RFKILL build issue! Looks like I should try to get a build setup for testing ahb.c build myself.. - Jouni

Re: [ath9k-devel] Intel 5100, 5300 and 4965AGN clients can't connect in 802.11n mode

2009-03-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 03:58 -0800, Yura wrote: However, it still doesn't not work right. Connection is almost bad in N mode. Ping shows 50-90% packet loss, every 2nd or 3rd packet is lost. Transfer speed is usually only some kBps. Sometimes it improves and seems to work well and I have ~2

Re: [ath9k-devel] problem with Atheros 5416 and WPA-PSK

2009-02-27 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 03:38 -0800, Sebastian S wrote: then I try to associate with my Asus RT-N15 with WPA2-PSK with the following command: ' wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c/etc/wpa_workn.conf' dmesg reports the following: [ 4297.083963] wlan1: associated [ 4297.318287] wlan1:

Re: [ath9k-devel] hostapd HT configuration

2009-02-17 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 08:48 -0800, Stephen Gutknecht (hilltx) wrote: A new hostapd was just released as stable, version 0.6.8, and I'm fighting some issues with it rejecting ht_capab that worked in 0.6.7 at the moment. hostapd is now rejecting ht_capab options that the driver does not

Re: [ath9k-devel] Setting 11n MCS TX bitrate

2009-02-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
interface in TXVECTOR (e.g., DATARATE and MCS). How the MAC sublayer decides how to set these parameters or even things like how to control the decision process are very much out of scope. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Fwd: Re: Problem with 80211n Speed and packet drop]

2009-02-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 03:38 -0800, Amit Sood wrote: Actually I reffred this site to compile and install AP mode and here only I found about CONFIG_LIBNL20=y setting in hostapd compilation and I'm unable to compile with this settings. I've not got any response from hostapd mailing list yet.

Re: [ath9k-devel] Question about 802.11g vs. 802.11n speeds in/out

2009-01-23 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:25 -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote: Here's what I've got for the ht_capab= setting in hostapd.conf, which I'm not fully sure what it should be for the DWA-552 (AR5416 chip)... ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-40][TX-STBC][RX-STBC12][DELAYED-BA] [DSSS_CCK-40] I would suggest

Re: [ath9k-devel] still same problem

2009-01-21 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 02:11 -0800, W. van den Akker wrote: I have tested with 1 CPU disabled. Running now for about 2 hours without hangups (I have several connection drops, but it will reconnect). I have also tested with 2 CPU's and HT-disabled (noht parameter) but that had no effect. So

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Enforce module build if rfkill is a module

2009-01-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
this invalid configuration. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen jouni.mali...@atheros.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/Kconfig |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/Kconfig2009-01-05 13:27:01.0 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k drivers and master mode

2008-12-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 01:27 -0800, David Shwatrz wrote: I think that I heard that it does support Access Point mode (AP), so my question is: what is the status of master mode (AP) in ath9k ? Is it known to work ? (I am willing to use also the driver for the wireless-testing or ath9k git

Re: [ath9k-devel] Constant AP dropout

2008-11-19 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Tyler W. Mills wrote: wlan0: associated wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3) I get this every few minutes while associated with my AP. WPA2/TKIP encryption, this has only started happening with the latest kernel in F10. Are you using

Re: [ath9k-devel] Dlink DIR-655 firmware upgrade broke 11n

2008-10-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Kevin Mitchell wrote: So about a month ago, I got a mail from my router (Dlink DIR-655 HW:A2) telling me that firmware 1.20 was available for download. I believe I had 1.11 before. Hoping to boost my new 11n capability (thanks so much by the way), I went ahead