Re: [lime-users] Testing LibreMesh 16.07 on TPLink AC1750

On 09/11/16 00:56, Gui Iribarren wrote: adhoc confirmed not supported looking at "iw phy" so, when trying to bring up the mesh interface, logread says ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: must load driver with rawmode=1 to add mesh interfaces tried simply reloading the driver with rawmode=1, but then logread said rawmode = 1 requires support from firmware following this https://github.com/o11s/open80211s/wiki/ath10k-(802.11ac)-for-Mesh-Support i downloaded this exact file https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA988X/hw2.0/10.2.4.70… placed it the router /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/firmware-5.bin overwriting the one from the package ath10k-firmware-qca988x then # rmmod ath10k_pci ; rmmod ath10k_core # insmod ath10k_core rawmode=1 ; insmod ath10k_pci # wifi and it came up :) i had some issues with wireless.radioX.htmode=HT40, logread spits out some errors during wifi reload radio0 (24777): Usage: iw [options] dev <devname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] radio0 (24777): Options: radio0 (24777): --debug enable netlink debugging looks like netifd is passing the parameters wrong to "iw" according again to this https://github.com/o11s/open80211s/wiki/ath10k-(802.11ac)-for-Mesh-Support the syntax is supposed to be "iw mesh0 set freq 5180 80 5210" and it looks like netifd is doing the classical "iw mesh0 set channel 48 HT40+" for the meantime, i just unset htmode, and it everything comes up fine (albeit slow, a netperf between the two nodes on the same table gives only ~20 mbps, it could be around ~100 mbps if properly configured) anyway this thread will turn definitely "lime-dev", and offtopic for lime-users, so I'm moving the discussion there :)