2009-11-22 12:28:28

by Simon Farnsworth

Subject: HTC Hero cannot get an address from an ath5k AP

Hello,

I've recently acquired a HTC Hero, and thought I'd try and use it with my
ath5k based AP. It doesn't work, and I'm at a loss to debug it.

The only hint I have is that neither of my (Linux-based) laptops can hold
association to the AP without traffic flowing continuously, which leads me
to suspect power saving issues.

My hostapd configuration file is attached; I've checked that I've used the
correct WEP key. I can provide any more information that's needed. My
controller appears in lspci as:

02:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc.
AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)

and in dmesg as:

[572338.589520] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa5, PHY: 0x61)

I have:

CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_ATH5K=m
CONFIG_ATH5K_DEBUG=y

set in my .config, and have debugfs available.
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Any help will be gratefully received,

Simon Farnsworth

2009-11-24 15:13:35

by Bob Copeland

Subject: Re: HTC Hero cannot get an address from an ath5k AP

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Simon Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:28, Simon Farnsworth wrote:
>
>> My hostapd configuration file is attached; I've checked that I've used the
>> correct WEP key. I can provide any more information that's needed. My
>> controller appears in lspci as:

Hi Simon,

I am sure this is an issue with power saving -- this patch may help
somewhat, but the last time I looked at it, there were still some
additional issues:

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/56785/

Also I never did get beacon gating to work wrt the discussion
around the patch.

Unfortunately I'm completely slammed for the next 3-4 weeks until this
semester ends, so unable to do any wireless work. Would anyone else
care to take a shot at narrowing this down?

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Bob Copeland %% http://www.bobcopeland.com

2009-11-23 19:36:39

by Simon Farnsworth

Subject: Re: HTC Hero cannot get an address from an ath5k AP

On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:28, Simon Farnsworth wrote:

> My hostapd configuration file is attached; I've checked that I've used the
> correct WEP key. I can provide any more information that's needed. My
> controller appears in lspci as:
>
Just realised that I forgot the most important information:

My kernel is wireless-testing git master as of commit
fe1bafb0a2e95c9379df62e6ccc80713096c283c

My hostapd is git master as of commit
224f7bda793010087833899a5b203ac80a05b208

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Simon