Return-path: Received: from mail-vb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.212.44]:47931 "EHLO mail-vb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936365Ab3DQSDG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:03:06 -0400 Received: by mail-vb0-f44.google.com with SMTP id e12so1489432vbg.31 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:03:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <515EF88F.1030606@openwrt.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:03:05 -0500 Message-ID: (sfid-20130417_200313_622525_7959C54D) Subject: Re: AR9342: Two odd packets in every beacon interval in 5Ghz From: Harshal Chhaya To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Harshal Chhaya wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2013-04-05 5:24 PM, Harshal Chhaya wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We have an AR9342-based AP that is sending out two odd packets each >>> beacon interval. These packets are 1804 bytes in size, are transmitted >>> at 6.5Mbps and have the dest MAC address the same as the source MAC >>> address. > ... >> Maybe it's (failing) PA predistortion calibration, which needs to send >> training frames to complete. >> I'd suggest trying a newer compat-wireless version, this type of >> calibration has been disabled there because of various issues (including >> hardware damage on some chips). > > Felix, > > Thanks for that suggestion. I will try a newer compat-wireless and let > you know what happens. Felix, Sorry for the delayed reply (a couple of other problems had to be fixed first) but a newer compat-wireless indeed fixed the problem. No more slow, long packets. Thank you for explaining what those packets were and for the solution. Thanks, - Harshal