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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Management rate-control on IPQ4019
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:58:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5E4C41F3.2000500@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20543d04-7847-8a4f-7882-78c2f42c98c0@david-bauer.net>

On 02/18/2020 11:12 AM, David Bauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while playing around with the 2.4GHz WiFi part of the IPQ4019, i was
> expecting being able to set the rate at which IPQ4019 transmits it's beacon
> frames.
>
> Using OpenWrt, setting "legacy_rates=0" on the radio leads to only advertising
> 802.11g speeds, however the beacons are still sent out at 1 Mbit/s. Using a QCA9984,
> the beacons are correctly sent out at the lowest 802.11g rate (6 Mbit/s). So i assume
> this is either a bug in the ath10k firmware or a hardware-shortcoming. Has anyone else
> experienced this bug and is it likely we'll see it fixed in a later firmware release?
>
> Hardware: IPQ4029 (Aruba AP-303)
> Firmware  Version: 10.4-3.6-00140 / 10.4-3.5.3-00078

There are separate API for setting management frame rates.  I forget exactly how
upstream supports this, but maybe check debugfs?

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18 19:12 Management rate-control on IPQ4019 David Bauer
2020-02-18 19:58 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2020-02-18 23:06   ` David Bauer
2020-02-19 10:29     ` Ben Greear
2020-02-19 22:05       ` David Bauer

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