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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 depending on the device. Note: I am told this is a limitation of the linux kernel, but I note that madwifi recognised the hardware capabilities correctly. But then again I have written a little extension that just spits out the vendor, id sub-vendor-id and sub-id into dmesg on bootup, I scrape the output and set the device accordingly using a case switch in a custom script. A hack to be sure, but I cannot understand why things are supposedly so hard; I for one do not even code in C properly, I can only write shell scripts and php code. Then the hardware offsets which are now coded into trunk in iwinfo are just simply added to the 27dBm, so you end up with non-sensical power setting and choices up to 37dBm in some cases. Then there are a few other things around the edges, like the recognistion of the Fonera and Meraki devices by MAC addess. Maybe not clean and purist, but it worked like a charm. Now Luci just looks into /proc/cpuinfo by default, which holds no good information for atheros mips devices. I have a nano2, a pico, pico2 HP, an engenius eoc-1650, a fonera plus, a fonera 2.0g, and a dir300a, so I have a reasonable cross-section for testing. And I am sorry to say that device management and power management and display currently in trunk with ath5k is a mess. I am happy to continue to test, as things change but until then I am back to backfire and madwifi. Sorry for the rant, I am grateful someone is taking an interest, and yes I know, we all do that in our spare time (me included). Cheers On 28 February 2012 09:34, Jonathan Bither <jonbit...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 either ath5k or madwifi >> driver. Personally I found many issues with ath5k integration into >> openwrt still unresolved in terms of card and device recognition and >> am consequently in the process to downgrade to madwifi again. Madwifi >> is no longer developed by the linux open driver project as opposed to >> ath5k, but the focus and interest of the OpenWrt community has moved >> on from atheros to ar71xx architecture and thus to ath9k fair and >> square. As soon as trunk switched one day from madwifi to ath5k on the >> legacy atheros architecture I started encountering issues - but this >> is my experience, others may have a different view. >> >> On 28 February 2012 09:08, Brian Hutchinson<b.hutch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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 the end of the email. If I recall, the last build >>> that was working used madwifi and the version I built from trunk uses >>> ath9k. In make menuconfig I remember there was an option for madwifi >>> but I didn't include it as I didn't think it was needed anymore. Did >>> I need that??? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> root@OpenWrt:/etc/config# lsmod >>> Module Size Used by Tainted: G >>> ath9k 88800 0 >>> ohci_hcd 15760 0 >>> ledtrig_usbdev 2032 0 >>> nf_nat_irc 784 0 >>> nf_conntrack_irc 2464 1 nf_nat_irc >>> nf_nat_ftp 976 0 >>> nf_conntrack_ftp 4416 1 nf_nat_ftp >>> ipt_MASQUERADE 976 1 >>> iptable_nat 2112 1 >>> nf_nat 9904 4 >>> nf_nat_irc,nf_nat_ftp,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat >>> xt_conntrack 2048 3 >>> xt_CT 1216 0 >>> xt_NOTRACK 448 0 >>> iptable_raw 560 1 >>> xt_state 608 0 >>> nf_conntrack_ipv4 3872 6 iptable_nat,nf_nat >>> nf_defrag_ipv4 624 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4 >>> nf_conntrack 36624 12 >>> >>> nf_nat_irc,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_nat_ftp,nf_conntrack_ftp,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,xt_conntrack,xt_CT,xt_NOTRACK,xt_state,nf_conntrack_ipv4 >>> ehci_hcd 32544 0 >>> pppoe 7472 0 >>> pppox 1152 1 pppoe >>> ipt_REJECT 1808 2 >>> xt_TCPMSS 1824 0 >>> ipt_LOG 6048 0 >>> xt_comment 400 0 >>> xt_multiport 1104 0 >>> xt_mac 528 0 >>> xt_limit 944 1 >>> iptable_mangle 832 1 >>> iptable_filter 624 1 >>> ip_tables 8864 4 >>> iptable_nat,iptable_raw,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter >>> xt_tcpudp 1632 3 >>> x_tables 10000 18 >>> >>> ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,xt_conntrack,xt_CT,xt_NOTRACK,iptable_raw,xt_state,ipt_REJECT,xt_TCPMSS,ipt_LOG,xt_comment,xt_multiport,xt_mac,xt_limit,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,ip_tables,xt_tcpudp >>> ppp_async 5952 0 >>> ppp_generic 18544 3 pppoe,pppox,ppp_async >>> slhc 4368 1 ppp_generic >>> ath9k_common 1152 1 ath9k >>> ath9k_hw 347344 2 ath9k,ath9k_common >>> ath 14112 3 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw >>> mac80211 233280 1 ath9k >>> usbcore 98336 4 ohci_hcd,ledtrig_usbdev,ehci_hcd >>> usb_common 480 1 usbcore >>> nls_base 4560 1 usbcore >>> crc_ccitt 944 1 ppp_async >>> cfg80211 134320 3 ath9k,ath,mac80211 >>> compat 688 0 >>> arc4 768 0 >>> aes_generic 29808 0 >>> crypto_algapi 8976 2 arc4,aes_generic >>> leds_gpio 1552 0 >>> gpio_button_hotplug 3184 0 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openwrt-devel mailing list >>> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >>> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
