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Is open80211s compatible with 802.11ad? #66

Open mojianhua01 opened 6 years ago

mojianhua01 commented 6 years ago

I have several 802.11ad chipsets and want to build a mesh network using open80211s. Does anyone know if open80211s is compatible with 802.11ad chipset? If not, I will give it up and try other methods :-(

chunyeow commented 6 years ago

AFAIK, no one has integrated or tested with 802.11ad chipset.

You need to at least see whether the following allow by the firmware:

  1. Able beaconing
  2. Promiscuous mode
  3. 802.11s header extension ...

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I have several 802.11ad chipsets and want to build a mesh network using open80211s. Does anyone know if open80211s is compatible with 802.11ad chipset? If not, I will give it up and try other methods :-(

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ngiftsun commented 5 years ago

Hello Guys! What about 802.11 ac chipsets? Any supported cards?

bcopeland commented 5 years ago

ath10k should work reasonably well for 11ac.

ngiftsun commented 5 years ago

I couldn't make it work using a ATH10k QCA6174 chipset. Could you suggest me a specific card or dongle? Thanks @bcopeland

bcopeland commented 5 years ago

I know for a fact that it works on qca9984, not sure about any others.

ngiftsun commented 5 years ago
  1. I'm definitely going to try them but I cannot find a qca9984 card with an M.2 interface. Unfortunately, in my NUC I have a NGFF M.2 E key interface instead of a mini-PCIe interface. I could try a FPC cable adapter to bridge these interfaces. Kindly let me know if you have some better suggestions.
  2. I see a repository https://github.com/bcopeland/ath10k-mesh. Do you think this package is still relevant to latest kernel? Thanks once again @bcopeland.