Re: mt76x0 bug report

[Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 01:36:51PM -0400, Sid Hayn wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:56 AM Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:18:57PM -0400, Sid Hayn wrote:
> > > Sorry to bump the one thing that we both agreed was low priority but....
> > >
> > > So was testing all of my dongles that use the driver you are working
> > > on, and running them through my connect scripts.  I moved the AP to
> > > maybe <5ft from the clients and something wierd happened.  The t1u
> > > tried to connect to one of the 2.4GHz only networks.  It failed, but
> > > it actually got enough scan data back to attempt authentication with a
> > > valid 2.4GHz only bssid.  Which means in short, that the eeprom isn't
> > > lying and your parsing of it is correct.  Something obviously makes
> > > this a 5GHz only device, as the connection failed and most of the time
> > > nothing at all is seen on 2.4GHz, but clearly it's some filter or
> > > antenna or some other mechanism which makes it 5GHz only.  So probably
> > > hardware lying to you is now even lower on your list since this safely
> > > rules out the driver parsing the eeprom incorrectly.
> >
> > First of all would be good to check if problem is not already solved,
> > latest version of the driver can be found here:
> > https://github.com/nbd168/wireless
> 
> Booting that kernel gets me instant to near instant kernel panics, so
> I am unable to test much.

This has to be fixed as well, can you provide kernel messages ?

> > Second, is there vendor driver available for this particular device?
> > Perhaps there are some tweeks needed that are not provided by generic
> > driver.
> 
> No clue, haven't even tried to look.  This hardware was all sitting on
> a shelf till it looked like a real driver was being merged into the
> kernel.... so um, thanks :-)

Why do you think device is 5GHz only? This is very unusual. I know
only single-band 2.4GHz or dual-band 2.4GHz & 5GHz devices.

Regards
Stanislaw