When I rebuilt the other day my ar2315 would not boot due to jffs2 errors. I haven't checked to see if it was something in my tree, but just thought i'd let you know. I can rebuilt with a clean true today and watch serial to see if the issue persists.
On 08/24/2012 01:02 PM, Ben West wrote: > My problem is likely unrelated, but could you (Tobias) say precisely > what revision of trunk you are using? > > Freshly compiled trunk r33202 w/ default config does not appear to > boot at all on my OM1P (ar2315 chipset), i.e. no response on eth0. > However, I don't think the bugs mentioned w/ compat-wireless in this > thread could cause that. > > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Tobias Diedrich > <ranma+open...@tdiedrich.de> wrote: >> Compiling OpenWRT from trunk, I've found that there are issues with >> setting txpower on AR2417: >> >> - No txpower setting in LuCI gui >> - iw phy phy0 info shows 0dBm for all channels regardless of regdomain >> >> [ 9.332000] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain >> [ 9.340000] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: >> [ 9.344000] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), >> (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) >> [ 9.352000] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 >> mBi, 2000 mBm) >> [ 9.360000] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 >> mBi, 2000 mBm) >> [ 9.364000] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 >> mBi, 2000 mBm) >> [ 9.372000] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 >> mBi, 2000 mBm) >> [ 9.380000] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 >> mBi, 2000 mBm) >> >> root@OpenWrt:/# iw phy phy0 info >> Wiphy phy0 >> Band 1: >> Frequencies: >> * 2412 MHz [1] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2417 MHz [2] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2422 MHz [3] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2427 MHz [4] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2432 MHz [5] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2437 MHz [6] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2442 MHz [7] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2447 MHz [8] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2452 MHz [9] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2457 MHz [10] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2462 MHz [11] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2467 MHz [12] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2472 MHz [13] (0.0 dBm) >> * 2484 MHz [14] (disabled) >> >> >> One issue seems to be fallout from >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=eccc068e8e84c8fe997115629925e0422a98e4de >> AFAICS max_power for the channels is never set and thus >> min(chan->max_power, chan->max_reg_power) is 0. >> >> This patch tries to fix this (but is probably wrong :)) >> After applying this patch "iw phy phy0 info" looks good, but >> WiFi Analyzer on my phone still shows a very weak signal for the AP. >> >> Until I do this: >> root@OpenWrt:/# iw phy phy0 set txpower fixed 0 >> root@OpenWrt:/# iw phy phy0 set txpower auto >> >> And then the signal strength is good. >> >> iw phy phy0 set txpower fixed|limit still doesn't accept values above 0 for >> some reason though. >> >> Index: compat-wireless-2012-07-16/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c >> =================================================================== >> --- compat-wireless-2012-07-16.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c >> 2012-08-05 01:42:19.141413438 +0200 >> +++ compat-wireless-2012-07-16/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c >> 2012-08-05 01:44:19.957568271 +0200 >> @@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ >> if (!ath5k_is_standard_channel(ch, band)) >> continue; >> >> + channels[count].max_power = AR5K_TUNE_MAX_TXPOWER; >> + >> count++; >> } >> >> >> -- >> Tobias PGP: http://8ef7ddba.uguu.de >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
