From: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ath9k and signal level
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:40:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730024035.GA2976@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> (raw)
I was finally able to get the ath9k drivers to work
under 2.6.26-rc1 by using the previous ath9k git patch,
the 16 new ath9k patches, the Berg's proposed skb->cb
patch and the following patch I constructed for ath9k
to mimic the skb->cb changes...
--- linux-2.6.26.x86_64/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c.orig 2008-07-29 19:32
:26.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26.x86_64/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c 2008-07-29 20:04
:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
#define OFDM_SIFS_TIME 16
+#ifndef ETH_P_PAE
+#define ETH_P_PAE 0x888E /* Port Access Entity (IEEE 802.1X) */
+#endif /* ETH_P_PAE */
+
static u_int32_t bits_per_symbol[][2] = {
/* 20MHz 40MHz */
{ 26, 54 }, /* 0: BPSK */
@@ -248,7 +252,7 @@
txctl->min_rate = tx_info_priv->min_rate;
} else if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) {
if (ieee80211_is_nullfunc(fc) ||
- (tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_EAPOL_FRAME)) {
+ (skb->protocol == cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_PAE))) {
txctl->use_minrate = 1;
txctl->min_rate = tx_info_priv->min_rate;
}
@@ -310,7 +314,7 @@
txctl->keytype = HAL_KEY_TYPE_CLEAR;
txctl->keyix = HAL_TXKEYIX_INVALID;
- if (!(tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT)) {
+ if (tx_info->control.hw_key) {
txctl->keyix = tx_info->control.hw_key->hw_key_idx;
txctl->frmlen += tx_info->control.icv_len;
So far the ath9k driver seems to be working well with one oddity.
I find that the gnome menu applet (using the NetworkManager in Fedora 9)
shows a signal level of zero (even though it recognizes that the connection
exists to the wireless network). Is this a known issue?
Jack
ps Are all 16 patches now applied to the ath9k git?
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 2:40 Jack Howarth [this message]
2008-08-04 18:07 ` ath9k and signal level Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-08-04 18:11 ` Jack Howarth
2008-08-04 18:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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