ath5k and Open80211s not working (AR2413)

[Andrey Yurovsky]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Stephane Davy<davystephane at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?

The patch is against wireless-testing (at the moment, that's the
2.6.30 kernel).  2.6.26 does not have mesh support in the ath5k driver
as far as I know, you should use 2.6.29 or wireless-testing.  Please
see: http://o11s.org/trac#DriverStatus for a list of drivers and the
earliest kernel in which they have mesh support.

  -Andrey

> 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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