2016-06-03 06:28:14

by Craig McQueen

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Subject: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

I have a D-Link DWA-140 USB Wi-Fi device which is rt2800 based (5392 chipset). I'm trying to use it on a BeagleBone Black based system with 3.14.x kernel built with Yocto. We're using ConnMan 1.30 at the moment.

We've been finding some instabilities with it periodically disconnecting from some networks. So we tried upgrading the firmware file rt2870.bin from version 0.29 to 0.36. That seems to be more stable with the network. However, we're finding that it initially doesn't connect, until the Wi-Fi has been disabled and then re-enabled. 'connmanctl scan wifi' and 'iwlist scan' don't return anything until Wi-Fi has been disabled and then re-enabled.

Have there been any Linux driver changes needed to support this 0.36 firmware? Does anyone have any pointers on where to look to understand this behaviour between 0.29 and 0.36 firmware?

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Craig McQueen



2016-06-09 02:47:17

by Craig McQueen

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Subject: RE: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

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2016-06-04 17:22:45

by Xose Vazquez Perez

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Subject: Re: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

Craig McQueen wrote:

> I have a D-Link DWA-140 USB Wi-Fi device which is rt2800 based (5392
> chipset). I'm trying to use it on a BeagleBone Black based system with
> 3.14.x kernel built with Yocto. We're using ConnMan 1.30 at the moment.

Try it with a _desktop x86_64 distribution_ , with a *recent kernel*
as Fedora: (WORK is gnome) https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/

> We've been finding some instabilities with it periodically disconnecting
> from some networks. So we tried upgrading the firmware file rt2870.bin
> from version 0.29 to 0.36. That seems to be more stable with the
> network. However, we're finding that it initially doesn't connect, until
> the Wi-Fi has been disabled and then re-enabled. ' scan wifi'
> and 'iwlist scan' don't return anything until Wi-Fi has been disabled
> and then re-enabled.

Don't use any wrapper(NM, ConnMan, wicd, ...), usually are buggy. You should
use raw commands "iw" and "wpa_supplicant". Hints:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw and wpa_supplicant
always running with "-Dnl80211"

> Have there been any Linux driver changes needed to support this 0.36
> firmware? Does anyone have any pointers on where to look to understand
> this behaviour between 0.29 and 0.36 firmware?

closed source, but old changelogs are available at:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2013-September/006391.html

Related to latest firmware releases, ralink/mediatek guys say:
"According to the engineers comment, the firmware didn't change much
these years, just some bbp register update and led stuff."

2016-06-23 06:58:20

by Craig McQueen

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Subject: RE: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

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2016-06-16 23:37:42

by Craig McQueen

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Subject: RE: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

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2016-06-15 04:02:19

by Craig McQueen

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Subject: RE: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

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2017-12-13 23:39:35

by Craig McQueen

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Subject: RE: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

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2017-12-14 12:48:05

by Stanislaw Gruszka

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Subject: Re: rt2800usb firmware rt2870.bin 0.36 not scanning

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:24:28PM +0000, Craig McQueen wrote:
> > Actually, I was wrong. With the 3.14.x Yocto-built kernel, this no-scan issue
> > only happens with the Edup with the 5390 chipset, and the D-Link is fine.
> >
> > But further testing with the 4.4.12 Yocto-built kernel shows that it randomly
> > sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't with either the Edup or D-Link
> > devices. That's especially interesting, because it suggests that there may be a
> > race condition happening during the driver initialisation code (called from
> > rt2x00lib_start()). At first I thought it was a race condition between the calls
> > to rt2x00lib_load_firmware() and rt2x00lib_initialize(), but adding a time
> > delay between those calls didn't help.
> >
> > I'm wondering what the difference is between the two chipsets, so that the
> > problem happens more on one chipset than the other. But not exclusively, as
> > I mentioned above, so again, this points to a marginal timing issue that
> > affects one more than the other.
> >
> > > With the Ubuntu 4.4.6 kernel, both devices work fine, without this
> > > no-scan problem.
> > > ...
>
> Now I'm using a 4.9.65 kernel, and this problem is still present. When the USB Wi-Fi dongle is plugged in, it just doesn't do anything -- doesn't scan for Wi-Fi networks, doesn't connect to anything.
>
> My project is using ConnMan, so I've patched ConnMan so that it takes the device up, then down, then up again. Then it reliably works. But of course this is an ugly hack.
>
> Based on my initial investigation, my hypothesis was that there's a race condition during rt2x00lib_start() in rt2x00dev.c. At first I thought it was between firmware loading and initialisation. But adding a time delay between the calls to rt2x00lib_load_firmware() and rt2x00lib_initialize() didn't help. Adding time delays at many possible points in the initialisation didn't seem to help. I thought there must be a race condition in a very specific location in the initialisation sequence, but could not confirm that hypothesis. So now I've drawn a blank.
>
> Any advice on how to diagnose and remedy this issue?

I know the vendor driver do initialization sequence twice - after
finish first sequence the same steps are repeated second time.
I don't know why that is needed and on all my Ralink USB devices
one initialization sequence is sufficient with rt2x00 driver.

Right fix to this will be found proper initialization sequence,
so second step will not be needed, but perhaps this is firmware
problem. Anyway ConnMan patch seems to be a good solution
as well ;-)

Cheers
Stanislaw