Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-28 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hello, Le 02/28/12 02:55, Brian Hutchinson a écrit : On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: I build from trunk. I selected (=y) it from menuconfig under kernel and wireless. You can search in menuconfig with '/'. Ah, I have a /etc/config/wireless

[OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Brian Hutchinson
Hi, These boxes use to be working but I recently upgraded them to the latest trunk and now my wireless cards are no longer detected. No /etc/config/wireless and trying to generate the file with wifi detect does nothing. Not sure what is going on since everything looks OK. lsmod output is at

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Jonathan Bither
Hanno, Do we happen to have a list of known issues so that we can work on getting them resolved instead of reverting back to mac80211? On 02/27/2012 03:15 PM, Hanno Schupp wrote: I am not a developer, but I can tell you the ath9k is for b/g/n cards, so that may be the reason. You should use

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Hanno Schupp
You can follow the recent changes and discussions here on the developer list. The main issue seems to be how iwinfo does not recognise the physical limitations of the wifi equipment. Everything is 27dBm (possibly from CRDA database?) although in reality it is anywhere between 20dBm and 30dBm

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Brian Hutchinson
So if I want immediate relief from this, I should drop back to Backfire and turn on madwifi in makemenuconfig? About the only Atheros boxes I have to test with are these two RB411's (one with regular R52 radio and one with the high power version of the R52 radio) and a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Jonathan Bither
If you wanted immediate relief you could also just select the right driver for your card ;-). Ath5k is the replacement for Madwifi. By selecting ath5k in trunk your radios should operate fine. On 02/27/2012 04:08 PM, Brian Hutchinson wrote: So if I want immediate relief from this, I should

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Brian Hutchinson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Bither jonbit...@gmail.com wrote: If you wanted immediate relief you could also just select the right driver for your card ;-). Ath5k is the replacement for Madwifi. By selecting ath5k in trunk your radios should operate fine. I thought that as I

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Russell Senior
Brian == Brian Hutchinson b.hutch...@gmail.com writes: Brian So if I want immediate relief from this, I should drop back to Brian Backfire and turn on madwifi in makemenuconfig? Except for the recently 'gain calibration timeout' problem which recently I helped bisect and which nbd fixed, ath5k

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Brian Hutchinson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: Brian == Brian Hutchinson b.hutch...@gmail.com writes: Brian So if I want immediate relief from this, I should drop back to Brian Backfire and turn on madwifi in makemenuconfig? Except for the recently 'gain

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] wifi detect returns nothing (openwrt trunk with RB411 R52 (lspci lists radio as AR5413 802.11abg)

2012-02-27 Thread Russell Senior
Brian == Brian Hutchinson b.hutch...@gmail.com writes: Brian So if I want immediate relief from this, I should drop back to Brian Backfire and turn on madwifi in makemenuconfig? Except for the recently 'gain calibration timeout' problem which recently I helped bisect and which nbd fixed,