Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe high-power WiFi card?

[Adrian Chadd]

Nope, just keep an eye out for when I push out further ath changes to -HEAD. :)

Thanks!


Adrian

On 17 May 2011 16:56, Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/05/2011 15:18, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Checkout from -HEAD:
>>
>> sys/dev/ath/
>> sys/modules/ath
>> sys/modules/ath_pci
>>
>> Make sure your -8 source is in /usr/src. :)
>>
>> Go into sys/modules/ath and make ; same with sys/modules/ath_pci &&
>> make ; then just unload your current if_ath.ko, load if_ath.ko and
>> if_ath_pci.ko. It should be good to go.
>>
> All good so far,
> [root at ostracod ~]# dmesg | egrep '(ath|wlan)'
> wlan: mac acl policy registered
> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
> wlan1: Ethernet address: 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
> [root at ostracod ~]# ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>        ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
>        status: running
> [root at ostracod ~]# ifconfig wlan1
> wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
>        inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
>        inet6 fe80::224:23ff:fe07:fb5d%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
>        inet6 2001:xxx:xxxx:3::1 prefixlen 64
>        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
>        status: running
>        ssid vhoff channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
>        regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2
>        TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 20 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst
>        dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>
>
> Any tests I can run in particular that would be useful?
> iperf give a pretty consistent 26.0 Mbits/sec between the server
> (dualcore atom 330 @1.6GHz) and my laptop (macbook pro core i7 @2.66Ghz)
>
>
> Vince
>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>> On 16 May 2011 22:00, Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 16/05/2011 13:53, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>> 2011/5/16 Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Havent got that particular card, I have
>>>>> ath0 at pci0:4:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x10671a3b chip=0x002a168c
>>>>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>>>>    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>>>>    device     = 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (0001)'
>>>>>    class      = network
>>>>>
>>>>> which says its
>>>>> (13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot
>>>>> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
>>>>> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>>>>>
>>>> Would you mind trying the ath driver from -HEAD and see if it's
>>>> better/worse/same?
>>>>
>>>> I'm worried about introducing regressions in the -HEAD ath code. In
>>>> particular, AR9280/AR9285 was missing complete TX and board
>>>> calibration code which may have caused some issues like TX distortion.
>>>> I'd like to make sure those are fixed.
>>>>
>>> I'll give it a try when i can but I'm moving house in about 2 weeks so
>>> life's a little busy just now :)
>>> Is it  enough to just grab the sys/dev/ath  directory from -CURRENT,
>>> drop it in and make the modules or would it be simpler for me to install
>>> -CURRENT on an external HD for testing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vince
>>>> Adrian
>>>
>
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