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To: sedat.dilek-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public•gmane.org>,
	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>,
	Lennert Buytenhek
	<buytenh-OLH4Qvv75CYX/NnBR394Jw@public•gmane.org>,
	"John W. Linville"
	<linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public•gmane.org>,
	linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361)
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:34:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9D7BB8.4000007@coldplug.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+icZUXrGuY+0GLJCmL9CH7i7vnvXAyAE2vXNAXM_3Q30B4nPA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

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On 04/29/2012 01:26 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Jim Cromie<jim.cromie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Sedat Dilek<sedat.dilek-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public•gmane.org>  wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jim Cromie<jim.cromie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>  wrote:
>>>>>> As already pointed out, no Marwell WLAN hardware here. Marvell comics
>>>>>> of course :-).
>> (I had to leave that one..:-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> A new tarball from lautriv with same outputs as before, but now tested
>>>>> with Linux-3.4-rc4.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Sedat -
>>>>
>>>> heres my logs, using firmware extracted by Sedat's script,
>>>> and the patch on mwl8k.c
>>>>
>>>> bottom-line, it appears to be working.
>>>>
>>>> its contents are a bit more pedantic, and includes data for
>>>> another wifi card (rtl8180 based) also in the box.
>>>> It was obtained by this script:
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>
>>>> # dmesg (Linux-3.3.3)
>>>> # e_n_a (/etc/network/interfaces)
>>>> # ifconfig output
>>>> # iwconfig output
>>>> # iw_phy output
>>>> # ps_axu (WPA) output
>>>>
>>>> devs="wlan0 wlan1"
>>>> apmac=00:14:d1:e8:65:0a
>>>>
>>>> loudly () {
>>>>     echo "# $@"
>>>>     fname=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/ /-/g'`
>>>>     $@ 2>  $fname-err | tee $fname
>>>>     [ $? != 0 ]&&  echo non-zero exit on $fname: $?
>>>>     [ -s $fname-err ] || rm $fname-err
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> ( iw --debug event -f>  iw-event-f )&
>>>> pid_event=$!
>>>>
>>>> for N in 0 1 ; do
>>>>     loudly iw dev wlan$N interface add fish$N type monitor # flags none
>>>>     loudly iw dev fish$N set channel 8
>>>>     loudly ifconfig fish$N up
>>>>     ( tcpdump -i fish$N -s 65000 -p -U -w  fish$N.dump )&
>>>>     pid_dump_fish$N=$!
>>>> done
>>>>
>>>> loudly iw list
>>>>
>>>> #loudly iwspy
>>>> # gives: Interface doesn't support wireless statistic collection
>>>>
>>>> for dev in $devs ; do
>>>>     loudly ifconfig $dev
>>>>     loudly iwconfig $dev
>>>>     loudly iwlist $dev scan
>>>>     loudly iw dev $dev info
>>>>     loudly iw dev $dev link
>>>>     loudly iw dev $dev scan
>>>>     loudly iw dev $dev survey dump
>>>> done
>>>>
>>>> for phy in $phys ; do
>>>>     loudly iw phy $phy info
>>>> done
>>>>
>>>> # these are unsupported on wlan0
>>>> loudly iw dev wlan1 survey dump
>>>> loudly iw dev wlan1 station dump
>>>> loudly iw dev wlan1 station get $apmac
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> for N in 0 1 ; do
>>>>     loudly iw dev fish$N del
>>>> done
>>>>
>>>> kill $pid_dump_fish0 $pid_dump_fish0
>>>> kill $pid_event
>>>>
>>>> dmesg>  dmesg
>>>>
>>>> grep -vE '^#|key' /etc/network/interfaces>  e_n_a
>>>>
>>>> exit
>>> Hi Jim,
>>>
>>> thanks for your testing and the nice testcase-script!
>>>
>>> lautriv you wanna run some more tests with Jim's script?
>>>
>>> Jim, how stable/fast/reliable is your WLAN connection?
>>> Suspend/resume tested?
>> I havent tested reliability in any way.
>> in fact, I havent tested any data-xfer per se,
>> will do an iperf test soon.
>>
>> That said, bitrate is quite low, I havent looked at why.
>>
>> jimc@chumly:~/projects/lx/wifi/mwl8k-8361p-logs$ grep -i MBit *
>> iw-dev-wlan0-link:      tx bitrate: 11.0 MBit/s
>> iw-dev-wlan1-link:      tx bitrate: 1.0 MBit/s
>> iw-dev-wlan1-station-dump:      tx bitrate:     1.0 MBit/s
>> iw-dev-wlan1-station-get-00:14:d1:e8:65:0a:     tx bitrate:     1.0 MBit/s
>>
>> my laptop is much faster than both cards in the soekris box, to same AP
>>
>> Connected to 00:14:d1:e8:65:0a (on wlan0)
>>         SSID: yoduh
>>         freq: 2447
>>         RX: 191134302 bytes (2120068 packets)
>>         TX: 17440426 bytes (120666 packets)
>>         signal: -45 dBm
>>         tx bitrate: 54.0 MBit/s
>>
>>         bss flags:
>>         dtim period:    0
>>         beacon int:     100
>>
>>
>> If you all have some suggestions on this, Id like to hear them.
>> And of course, any other testing you'd like too.
>>
>>
>>> Hope this helps to get native Linux support for 8361p.
>> hear hear.
>> FWIW,  I pulled this card out of a dead Netgear WNR854T,
>> which is linux based (and GPL compliant)
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> - Sedat -
>>>
>>> P.S.: BTW, only to clarify it should be "e_n_i" as short-form for
>>> /etc/network/interfaces file, but e_n_a sounds more female and nicer
>>> :-).
>> I caught that, but it wasnt worth "correcting" ;-)
>>
>> thanks
>> Jim
> Unfortunately, [1] says not much about debugging.
> Anyway, Lennert has some new informations.
> Let's see what the experts will say.
>
> - Sedat -
>
> [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/mwl8k
>

ok, as far as i can see for now, it looks like the actual solution is 
ignoring/rejecting any manual command to set parameters, neither 
iwconfig nor iw will change any settings. wpa_sup brings the card up and 
does also WPA2 but nothing else is tuneable thus a connection via 1Mb/s.

attaching a tarball from the results of the script which produced 42 
files of output.




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-29 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-27  9:08 [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361) Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27  9:14 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27  9:22   ` Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27  9:40     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27  9:42       ` Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27  9:46         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27  9:56           ` Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27  9:58             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27 10:12               ` Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27 10:17                 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27 10:57                   ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]                     ` <CA+icZUUnJPeDmL9xXfvj62an40bXwwaOnrJmxmLN_cBt9PyCZA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 13:29                       ` Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27 18:58                         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27 21:53                           ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]                             ` <CA+icZUWQmCRdjucb4+Nf24_zbJ4fzzp7zjqhKjXE6U01rppDfA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-28 22:25                               ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]                                 ` <CA+icZUXSaEMA=KbQP9UQcU6ZMBh8QD2sv-O=6r_Ly8is==gvSA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-28 22:36                                   ` Jim Cromie
2012-04-28 22:49                                     ` Sedat Dilek
2012-04-28 23:11                                       ` Jim Cromie
     [not found]                                         ` <CAJfuBxwz2PmNY37VB7Wx+GdQcOcS6Y96EM_JNtvs-dyv-imL6g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-28 23:26                                           ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]                                         ` <CA+icZUXrGuY+0GLJCmL9CH7i7vnvXAyAE2vXNAXM_3Q30B4nPA@mail.gmail .com>
     [not found]                                           ` <CA+icZUXrGuY+0GLJCmL9CH7i7vnvXAyAE2vXNAXM_3Q30B4nPA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-29 17:34                                             ` admin [this message]
     [not found]                                               ` <4F9D7BB8.4000007-kieEQ4o6Pv7k1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-29 17:49                                                 ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]                                                   ` <CA+icZUUj8utveS7e6wh-BU3A4yk4FsiQ9YGRk6BowL+ex35wFw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-30  9:53                                                     ` Helmut Stengele
2012-05-01 12:51                                         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-05-01 12:51                                   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-05-01 13:54                                     ` Sedat Dilek
2012-05-01 15:49                                       ` Lennert Buytenhek
     [not found]                                       ` <CA+icZUV=qtXwVxb+uvQJcsza0y+6k2LHJFFPnECY0M=QWBexaQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-02  1:12                                         ` Pat Erley
     [not found]                                           ` <4FA089F9.1020602-Jx9fsTfDDR3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-02  2:38                                             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-05-02  8:58                                               ` Sedat Dilek
2012-05-02  7:59                                       ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-02 13:53                                       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-05-07 16:09                                     ` Dan Williams
     [not found]                                       ` <1336406944.2385.24.camel-wKZy7rqYPVb5EHUCmHmTqw@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-07 16:42                                         ` Dan Williams
2012-05-07 18:26                                           ` Adrian Chadd
2012-05-11  8:01                                             ` Helmut Stengele
2012-05-01 12:47                             ` Lennert Buytenhek

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