Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe high-power WiFi card?

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 16/05/2011 15:18, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Checkout from -HEAD:
>
> sys/dev/ath/
> sys/modules/ath
> sys/modules/ath_pci
>
> Make sure your -8 source is in /usr/src. :)
>
> Go into sys/modules/ath and make ; same with sys/modules/ath_pci &&
> make ; then just unload your current if_ath.ko, load if_ath.ko and
> if_ath_pci.ko. It should be good to go.
>
All good so far,
[root at ostracod ~]# dmesg | egrep '(ath|wlan)'
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
wlan1: Ethernet address: 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
[root at ostracod ~]# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: running
[root at ostracod ~]# ifconfig wlan1
wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
        inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
        inet6 fe80::224:23ff:fe07:fb5d%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
        inet6 2001:xxx:xxxx:3::1 prefixlen 64
        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: running
        ssid vhoff channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
        regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2
        TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 20 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst
        dtimperiod 1 -dfs


Any tests I can run in particular that would be useful?
iperf give a pretty consistent 26.0 Mbits/sec between the server
(dualcore atom 330 @1.6GHz) and my laptop (macbook pro core i7 @2.66Ghz)


Vince

> Adrian
>
>
> On 16 May 2011 22:00, Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 16/05/2011 13:53, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> 2011/5/16 Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Havent got that particular card, I have
>>>> ath0 at pci0:4:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x10671a3b chip=0x002a168c
>>>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>>>    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>>>    device     = 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (0001)'
>>>>    class      = network
>>>>
>>>> which says its
>>>> (13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot
>>>> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
>>>> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>>>>
>>> Would you mind trying the ath driver from -HEAD and see if it's
>>> better/worse/same?
>>>
>>> I'm worried about introducing regressions in the -HEAD ath code. In
>>> particular, AR9280/AR9285 was missing complete TX and board
>>> calibration code which may have caused some issues like TX distortion.
>>> I'd like to make sure those are fixed.
>>>
>> I'll give it a try when i can but I'm moving house in about 2 weeks so
>> life's a little busy just now :)
>> Is it  enough to just grab the sys/dev/ath  directory from -CURRENT,
>> drop it in and make the modules or would it be simpler for me to install
>> -CURRENT on an external HD for testing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vince
>>> Adrian
>>