[wip] ar9300 hostap support

[Adrian Chadd]

On 28 March 2013 13:11, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I'd like to see if any other TX queue has a frame hanging around in it
>> that hasn't been completed.
>
>
> I had syslogd pipe the output to a perl script to set the sysctl, not ideal
> but effective I hope.  I've got two today.
>
>> Mar 28 07:03:01 jri kernel: ath0: ath_edma_tx_processq: Q1: empty?

.. interesting.


This is the interesting bit.

>> Mar 28 07:03:02 jri kernel: HW TXQ 0: axq_depth=0, axq_aggr_depth=0,
>> axq_fifo_depth=0, holdingbf=0
>> Mar 28 07:03:02 jri kernel: HW TXQ 1: axq_depth=0, axq_aggr_depth=0,
>> axq_fifo_depth=0, holdingbf=0
>> Mar 28 07:03:02 jri kernel: HW TXQ 2: axq_depth=0, axq_aggr_depth=0,
>> axq_fifo_depth=0, holdingbf=0
>> Mar 28 07:03:02 jri kernel: HW TXQ 3: axq_depth=0, axq_aggr_depth=0,
>> axq_fifo_depth=0, holdingbf=0
>> Mar 28 07:03:02 jri kernel: HW TXQ 8: axq_depth=0, axq_aggr_depth=0,
>> axq_fifo_depth=0, holdingbf=0

Right. None of these have any frames stuck in the FIFO. Good. Now, I
have to go chase down why we're seeing this.


>> Also, whats the output if 'ifconfig wlan0 list sta'? I wonder what the
>> RSSI is and I do wonder why you see frequent disconnects.
>>
>
> My RSSI tends to be between 7.0 and 8.5, I don't think I've seen 9.0 yet.
> I'm still working on improving my signal but at least for right now it's
> stable enough to be usable.  Try making a little Faraday cage around your
> router, or put openwrt on it and drop your signal down for your connection.
> Don't forget to add a dozen random wifi APs and devices.

oh I have attenuators. :-)

Is it plausibly 7-9 dB in your environment? :-) I'm worried that I've
not done the chip setup right and it's acting deaf-y.



Adrian