ath5k and Open80211s not working (AR2413)

[Andrey Yurovsky]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Stephane Davy<davystephane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a master research student working on Wireless mesh networks.
> I will test the performance of different wireless mesh protocols to better
> understand the needs of this networks.
>
> For my research I have an embedded board with an AR2413 wireless chipset.
> I am running Voyage Linux on it.
> Since several days, I am trying to get it works with the ath5k driver and
> Open80211s, but I didn't get any success.
> When I use the command line:
>  # iw dev mesh station dump
> Nothing appear.
> And I get some "ath5k unsupported jumbo" message.
> I read that there is some beacon problems with the ath5k drivers, but I
> didn't find how to solve it.
> Could you give me any help or some directions to get my problem solved ?
> Thanks,
> Stephane

This patch resolves the beaconing problem:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commit;h=41ba08509909bbc2e077a1f9b4ec0d07cb6f62a9

You must issue a scan before the device will beacon (that is, after
bring up the mesh point interface) due to another regression which has
not yet been addressed.

  -Andrey