ath5k and Open80211s not working (AR2413)

[Stephane Davy]

Thanks
I will try this patch.

Is it working with the version 2.6.26 of the linux kernel ?
Can I apply this patch directly on the kernel tree ?


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Andrey Yurovsky <andrey at cozybit.com> wrote:

> 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
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