Re: [ath9k-devel] Bigfoot Killer 1103

2011-10-19 Thread Lev Kuznetsov
If you want to use the 5GHz band, they ship their card's EEPROM set to world roaming; long story short you can't use it in access point mode out of the box with most distributions on the 5GHz band. You can override ath9k EEPROM in OpenWRT if you compile it with appropriate ath9k options, with most

Re: [ath9k-devel] error:Segmentation fault after compiling and move ath9k

2011-10-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:53:04 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wendy, sorry i have not tried on working with OpenWrt. please ask in the OpenWrt list. i had also Cced Felix and Adrian, Pavel Roskin who might know about this. may be you can just try with another OpenWrt

[ath9k-devel] ath9k: good, but can I get to the next level?

2011-10-19 Thread Bryan Phillippe
Hi All, After upgrading to compat-wireless-2011-10-10 and hostapd-0.7.3 on my IXP4xx-based ARM Access Point, I'm seeing dramatically-improved stability and performance. Great work! Under these combinations of software, I'm seeing long-term AP associations maintained by the clients (no longer

[ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Mitch Davis
Hello, I am writing to you all on behalf of the many Fedora users with AR9287 chips. In Fedora 15, wireless performance with the AR9287 is terrible. Here's a bug about it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702722 It's now on Fedora's common bugs list:

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I'd start debugging it by looking at the various debugfs entries in ath9k and try to find some error counters that are high. I ported the AR9287 code from ath9k to FreeBSD (minus some code that's never ever called) and performance for me is just dandy. (Or at least was when I last checked.)

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. and since the driver in 2.6.35 works fine, you have a starting point for bisecting the driver code. :-) That will _definitely_ get you a fix. Adrian ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: good, but can I get to the next level?

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Stuge
Bryan Phillippe wrote: I've noted two issues that I'd like to explore with your help. I'm sorry to say, but you will get no help to explore these issues. You will have to become an expert and fix the issues yourself, before someone will discuss the problem in detail. By then the problems have

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: good, but can I get to the next level?

2011-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20 October 2011 05:35, Bryan Phillippe b...@terran.org wrote: Hi All, After upgrading to compat-wireless-2011-10-10 and hostapd-0.7.3 on my IXP4xx-based ARM Access Point, I'm seeing dramatically-improved stability and performance.  Great work! Under these combinations of software, I'm

[ath9k-devel] Cross compiling problems with libpcap

2011-10-19 Thread 马进
Hi, I am trying to cross compile a program for openwrt to capture the beacon frames. The program(beaconCap.c) is as follows. * #includestdio.h #includestring.h #includestdlib.h #includepcap.h

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Stuge
Mitch Davis wrote: Can someone help me find the problem please? I am happy to do debugging and information collection, but I'll need some hand-holding. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm afraid the answer is no. You basically have to find the problem on your own. Of course patches

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Mitch Davis
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: I disagree strongly. I would not at all expect that simply finding a commit which exposes broken behavior will result in a fix. I find it equally likely, or more likely, that a bad commit (if one can be found at all!) will not

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Stuge
Mitch Davis wrote: I disagree strongly. I would not at all expect that simply finding a commit which exposes broken behavior will result in a fix. .. I thought so, and I agree. This particular problem could have been broken and fixed many times, and the odds of me finding the relevant one

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20 October 2011 10:20, Mitch Davis mjd+ath9k@afork.com wrote: I thought so, and I agree.  This particular problem could have been broken and fixed many times, and the odds of me finding the relevant one isn't good. You don't have to find the relevant one. You just have to find one

Re: [ath9k-devel] error:Segmentation fault after compiling and move ath9k

2011-10-19 Thread Mohammed Shafi
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:53:04 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wendy, sorry i have not tried on working with OpenWrt. please ask in the OpenWrt list.  i had also Cced Felix and Adrian, Pavel Roskin who

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance problems with the AR9287

2011-10-19 Thread Ben Greear
On 10/19/2011 03:26 PM, Mitch Davis wrote: Hello, I am writing to you all on behalf of the many Fedora users with AR9287 chips. In Fedora 15, wireless performance with the AR9287 is terrible. Here's a bug about it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702722 It's now on