WDS support for Rango (WRT3200ACM)

[yuhhaurlin]

Support WDS via OpenWRT 4 address solution.

[BrainSlayer]

does it mean wds sta / ap 4 address mode works now?

[yuhhaurlin]

No. I create this one to track this job

[GillyMoMo]

What's the status on this? What part of the code do I need to look at and possibly compare it to get this working right?

[yuhhaurlin]

This feature won't be done quickly.

[gufus]

@yuhhaurlin

Maybe soon...

Please :-)

[yuhhaurlin]

Busy on other projects. Will implement this feature later. Sorry.

[gufus]

Okay.

Thanks, hopefully WDS is on top of your todo pile. :-)

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[ad019]

Can we expect something will be done on WDS and MU-MIMO this year? Or will Marvell keep pushing these features into the future and keep dangling a carrot that they are "committed" to this product?

[yuhhaurlin]

Sure.

[GillyMoMo]

Like with the 1900ACv1, it'll take time before this matures. I remain in no rush for this. As before we are at the whim of Marvell as usual.

[tapper82]

How long do we have to wait? Is any work being dun on this driver any more?

[ad019]

Not long now I think. Now that the 32X is out and being based on OpenWRT, probably has the same driver as 3200acm, Marvell will have to resolve the pending issues.

[gufus]

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Not long now I think.

We'll see...

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[BrainSlayer]

@ad019 the wrt32x uses openwrt but does not use mwlwifi. it still uses the good old propertiery driver which has been used in the original firmware for the wrt3200acm

[yuhhaurlin]

Yes. WRT32x uses proprietary driver. Mwlwifi is mac80211 driver and it can support all Marvell chips for WRT series driver. It is open source. Proprietary driver of WRT32x is dedicated driver for 88W8964. It is up to you to decide to use which driver.

[yuhhaurlin]

In fact, it is the same driver used by stock firmware and Marvell ports it to work with OpenWrt.

[BrainSlayer]

@yuhhaurlin i have seen that the firmware blob in this WRT32X for the chipset is a little bit newer and has slightly different code in it. is there anything changed in it which is usefull for mwlwifi? i'm testing this binary right now with mwlwifi on my wrt3200acm

[yuhhaurlin]

No. Mwlwifi is mac80211 driver, it can support more features. BTW, for previous memory shortage problem, it is fixed by mwlwifi first.

[BrainSlayer]

i was talking about the W8889.bin file which is slightly different in the WRT32X version.

[yuhhaurlin]

I have no idea about W8889.bin! If WRT32X uses this binary, then maybe I am wrong. Sorry.

[BrainSlayer]

nono. it uses the propertiery driver, but for sure it uses the same firmware binary format like mwlwifi, but the WRT32X has a newer version of it. but doesnt look much different from the content

[yuhhaurlin]

Yes. There is new version of firmware for 88W8964.

[BrainSlayer]

yea. sorry typo from my side. do you know if there is any change in this firmware? or lets say do you know whats has been changed?

[yuhhaurlin]

Our QA is pretty busy. If community wants to test new version of firmware, I can do basic test next week and push it to here for you to do test.

[BrainSlayer]

i already tested it. so far it works. no negative effects here in my current environment.

[yuhhaurlin]

What is the version number?

[BrainSlayer]

for the wifi firmware or what?

[yuhhaurlin]

Firmware.

[BrainSlayer]

8006.img version: B4.18.01 Jun 2 2017 04:52:13 Copyright (c) 2007, 2009-2015 by Cisco Systems, Inc

[BrainSlayer]

same version string has in the previous version

[BrainSlayer]

driver reports [ 4.031097] ieee80211 phy0: fw download start [ 4.031101] ieee80211 phy0: ddr init: download start [ 4.031479] ieee80211 phy0: ddr init: download complete [ 4.168238] ieee80211 phy0: FwSize = 447616 downloaded Size = 447616 curr_ite ration 65522 [ 7.037377] ieee80211 phy0: fw download complete [ 7.050209] ieee80211 phy0: pcmd = de62c000 [ 7.067420] ieee80211 phy0: firmware version: 0x9030008 [ 7.295385] ieee80211 phy0: firmware region code: 10 [ 7.325027] ieee80211 phy0: 2G enabled, 5G enabled [ 7.329845] ieee80211 phy0: 4 TX antennas, 4 RX antennas [ 7.335255] pci 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142) [ 7.341035] ieee80211 phy1: priv->pcmd_buf = da3fc000 priv->pphys_cmd_buf = 1a3fc000 [ 7.347674] ieee80211 phy1: fw download start [ 7.347679] ieee80211 phy1: ddr init: download start [ 7.348060] ieee80211 phy1: ddr init: download complete [ 7.487829] ieee80211 phy1: FwSize = 447616 downloaded Size = 447616 curr_ite ration 65527 [ 8.681374] ieee80211 phy1: fw download complete [ 8.694183] ieee80211 phy1: pcmd = da3fc000 [ 8.710395] ieee80211 phy1: firmware version: 0x9030008 [ 8.848381] ieee80211 phy1: firmware region code: 10 [ 8.870970] ieee80211 phy1: 2G enabled, 5G disabled [ 8.875894] ieee80211 phy1: 4 TX antennas, 4 RX antennas

[yuhhaurlin]

cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/mwlwifi/info.

[BrainSlayer]

driver name: mwlwifi chip type: 88W8964 hw version: 7 driver version: 10.3.4.0-20170810 firmware version: 0x09030008 power table loaded from dts: no firmware region code: 0x10 mac address: 14:91:82:b9:16:d4 2g: enable 5g: enable antenna: 4 4 irq number: 46 ap macid support: 0000ffff sta macid support: 00010000 macid used: 00010000 radio: enable iobase0: e0c00000 iobase1: e0e80000 tx limit: 1024 rx limit: 16384

[yuhhaurlin]

All right, I will push 9.3.0.8 to here next week. However, it won't be tested by our QA.

[yuhhaurlin]

@BrainSlayer Please help to test version 9.3.0.8 of 88W8964 firmware via https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3qLWtcWB9EdWU9vM09QRy1Bc00.

[thagabe]

Wait, since the 32X will run on openwrt can we port the killer engine to lede on the 3200acm? Gamer here.

[ghost]

You should ask in LEDE forums, this is for the Wi-Fi driver only.

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Wait, since the 32X will run on openwrt can we port the killer engine to lede on the 3200acm? Gamer here.

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[BrainSlayer]

@thagabe there is no killer engine. the so called killer feature is just a set of qos rules. i checked this already

[s-pimenta]

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[eduperez]

@yuhhaurlin : If you push the source code for 9.3.0.8, in a branch here, or even in a fork, I could make packages for the stable version of LEDE, so more people can test the new drivers, without having to reinstall the whole system from scratch.

[yuhhaurlin]

9.3.0.8 is binary firmware of 88W8964. I will do basic test and push to here. LEDE is pretty stable now.

[gufus]

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9.3.0.8 is binary firmware of 88W8964. I will do basic test and push to here. LEDE is pretty stable now.

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[yuhhaurlin]

This is not related to WDS.

[tapper82]

Is any one still working on this driver? Any news any update? the people would like to no.

[nitroshift]

@yuhhaurlin

Been running the 9.3.0.8 firmware on LEDE for over a week now without any issues. You can commit it in the official repo.

nitroshift

[yuhhaurlin]

Thanks. I will check in on10/11.

[spamtree]

Question:

I see this is still listed as open. Was WDS implemented?

Thanks

[yuhhaurlin]

This feature is under development now.

[ad019]

Does this development also include MU-MIMO?

[yuhhaurlin]

No. MU-MIMO will be done later.