Hi, I have a "Alfa Networks AWPCI085P" Wlan Card. It can receive the outside, but I cannot connect to any AP. While testing with another notebook, I tried airmon from the aircrack-ng suite, and sometimes I can see packets from this station but with a power of -90dbm and less, while being less than a meter away. This Wlan Card is sold as a high power Card, the datasheet says about 26dbm at 6MBit/s (but I think crda should set the proper limits). There are two ufl connectors, one labeled with 2.4GHz and one with 5GHz. I tried connecting the antenna two both connectors.
So a few outputs: # dmesg | grep ath5 [ 10.549858] ath5k 0000:00:14.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 10.549995] ath5k 0000:00:14.0: registered as 'phy0' [ 11.192365] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa5, PHY: 0x61) # ./ath_info fcfe0000 sleep_ctl reg 00000000 reset_ctl reg 00000003 removing resets -==Device Information==- MAC Revision: 5414 (0xa5) Device type: 3 5GHz PHY Revision: 5413 (0x63) 2GHz PHY Revision: 5413 (0x63) /============== EEPROM Information =============\ | EEPROM Version: 5.2 | EEPROM Size: 16 kbit | | EEMAP: 2 | Reg. Domain: 0x60 | |================= Capabilities ================| | 802.11a Support: yes | Turbo-A disabled: no | | 802.11b Support: yes | Turbo-G disabled: no | | 802.11g Support: yes | 2GHz XR disabled: no | | RFKill Support: no | 5GHz XR disabled: no | | 32kHz Crystal: no | | \===============================================/ /=========================================================\ | Calibration data common for all modes | |=========================================================| | CCK/OFDM gain delta: 1 | | CCK/OFDM power delta: 5 | | Scaled CCK delta: 5 | | 2GHz Antenna gain: 1 | | 5GHz Antenna gain: 4 | | Turbo 2W maximum dBm: 38 | | Target power start: 0x1b7 | | EAR Start: 0x221 | \=========================================================/ /=========================================================\ | Calibration data for 802.11a operation | |=========================================================| | I power: 0x08 | Q power: 0x1f | | Use fixed bias: 0x00 | Max turbo power: 0x26 | | Max XR power: 0x24 | Switch Settling Time: 0x2d | | Tx/Rx attenuation: 0x0f | TX end to XLNA On: 0x02 | | TX end to XPA Off: 0x00 | TX end to XPA On: 0x0e | | 62db Threshold: 0x0f | XLNA gain: 0x11 | | XPD: 0x01 | XPD gain: 0x0a | | I gain: 0x00 | Tx/Rx margin: 0x0b | | False detect backoff: 0x00 | Noise Floor Threshold: -54 | | ADC desired size: -32 | PGA desired size: -80 | |=========================================================| | Antenna control 0: 0x00 | Antenna control 1: 0x01 | | Antenna control 2: 0x26 | Antenna control 3: 0x26 | | Antenna control 4: 0x06 | Antenna control 5: 0x06 | | Antenna control 6: 0x01 | Antenna control 7: 0x26 | | Antenna control 8: 0x26 | Antenna control 9: 0x06 | | Antenna control 10: 0x06 | Antenna control 11: 0x00 | |=========================================================| | Octave Band 0: 5 | db 0: 5 | | Octave Band 1: 5 | db 1: 5 | | Octave Band 2: 5 | db 2: 5 | | Octave Band 3: 5 | db 3: 5 | \=========================================================/ /==================== Turbo mode infos ===================\ | Switch Settling time: 0x5a | Tx/Rx margin: 0x0b | | Tx/Rx attenuation: 0x0f | ADC desired size: -32 | | PGA desired size: -80 | | \=========================================================/ /============== Per rate power calibration ===========\ | Freq | 6-24Mbit/s | 36Mbit/s | 48Mbit/s | 54Mbit/s | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 4900 | 18.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5180 | 18.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5240 | 18.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5320 | 18.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5500 | 18.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5700 | 18.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5745 | 17.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5825 | 17.00 | 15.00 | 14.00 | 13.00 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5360 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 5720 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | \=====================================================/ /====================== Per channel power calibration ===================\ | Freq | pwr_i | pwr_0 | pwr_1 | pwr_2 | pwr_3 | | | pddac_i | pddac_0 | pddac_1 | pddac_2 | pddac_3 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5170 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 42 | 53 | 67 | 89 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 14.50 | 18.50 | 20.50 | | | 20 | 32 | 46 | 78 | 109 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5230 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 35 | 45 | 59 | 82 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 14.50 | 18.50 | 20.50 | | | 21 | 31 | 51 | 88 | 119 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5260 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 37 | 46 | 66 | 87 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.50 | 19.00 | 21.00 | | | 22 | 31 | 53 | 89 | 117 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5300 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 34 | 47 | 73 | 93 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.00 | 19.00 | 21.00 | | | 22 | 34 | 54 | 95 | 121 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5400 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 37 | 49 | 71 | 105 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.50 | 18.50 | 20.50 | | | 23 | 35 | 60 | 95 | 120 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5500 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 36 | 50 | 73 | 97 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 14.50 | 18.00 | 19.50 | | | 23 | 36 | 56 | 96 | 117 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5650 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 40 | 48 | 74 | 100 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.50 | 17.50 | 19.50 | | | 25 | 36 | 61 | 86 | 114 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5745 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 37 | 50 | 71 | 105 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 14.00 | 17.50 | 18.50 | | | 25 | 37 | 52 | 90 | 102 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 5825 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 34 | 44 | 58 | 82 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 14.00 | 17.50 | 18.00 | | | 19 | 31 | 43 | 71 | 78 | \========================================================================/ /=========================================================\ | Calibration data for 802.11b operation | |=========================================================| | I power: 0x00 | Q power: 0x00 | | Use fixed bias: 0x00 | Max turbo power: 0x00 | | Max XR power: 0x00 | Switch Settling Time: 0x28 | | Tx/Rx attenuation: 0x21 | TX end to XLNA On: 0x02 | | TX end to XPA Off: 0x00 | TX end to XPA On: 0x07 | | 62db Threshold: 0x1c | XLNA gain: 0x11 | | XPD: 0x01 | XPD gain: 0x0a | | I gain: 0x00 | Tx/Rx margin: 0x0a | | False detect backoff: 0x00 | Noise Floor Threshold: -1 | | ADC desired size: -38 | PGA desired size: -80 | |=========================================================| | Antenna control 0: 0x00 | Antenna control 1: 0x01 | | Antenna control 2: 0x26 | Antenna control 3: 0x26 | | Antenna control 4: 0x06 | Antenna control 5: 0x06 | | Antenna control 6: 0x01 | Antenna control 7: 0x26 | | Antenna control 8: 0x26 | Antenna control 9: 0x06 | | Antenna control 10: 0x06 | Antenna control 11: 0x00 | |=========================================================| | Octave Band 0: 5 | db 0: 5 | | Octave Band 1: 5 | db 1: 5 | | Octave Band 2: 0 | db 2: 0 | | Octave Band 3: 0 | db 3: 0 | \=========================================================/ /============== Per rate power calibration ===========\ | Freq | 1Mbit/s | 2Mbit/s | 5.5Mbit/s | 11Mbit/s | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 2412 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 2484 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | 19.01 | \=====================================================/ /====================== Per channel power calibration ===================\ | Freq | pwr_i | pwr_0 | pwr_1 | pwr_2 | pwr_3 | | | pddac_i | pddac_0 | pddac_1 | pddac_2 | pddac_3 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 2412 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 6 | 26 | 45 | 74 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.00 | 19.00 | 22.00 | | | 14 | 25 | 46 | 83 | 131 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 2472 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 8 | 27 | 48 | 79 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.00 | 19.00 | 22.50 | | | 14 | 28 | 48 | 89 | 147 | \========================================================================/ /=========================================================\ | Calibration data for 802.11g operation | |=========================================================| | I power: 0x00 | Q power: 0x10 | | Use fixed bias: 0x01 | Max turbo power: 0x26 | | Max XR power: 0x27 | Switch Settling Time: 0x28 | | Tx/Rx attenuation: 0x21 | TX end to XLNA On: 0x02 | | TX end to XPA Off: 0x00 | TX end to XPA On: 0x0e | | 62db Threshold: 0x1c | XLNA gain: 0x11 | | XPD: 0x01 | XPD gain: 0x0a | | I gain: 0x00 | Tx/Rx margin: 0x0a | | False detect backoff: 0x00 | Noise Floor Threshold: -1 | | ADC desired size: -38 | PGA desired size: -80 | |=========================================================| | Antenna control 0: 0x00 | Antenna control 1: 0x01 | | Antenna control 2: 0x26 | Antenna control 3: 0x26 | | Antenna control 4: 0x06 | Antenna control 5: 0x06 | | Antenna control 6: 0x01 | Antenna control 7: 0x26 | | Antenna control 8: 0x26 | Antenna control 9: 0x06 | | Antenna control 10: 0x06 | Antenna control 11: 0x05 | |=========================================================| | Octave Band 0: 5 | db 0: 5 | | Octave Band 1: 5 | db 1: 5 | | Octave Band 2: 0 | db 2: 0 | | Octave Band 3: 0 | db 3: 0 | \=========================================================/ /==================== Turbo mode infos ===================\ | Switch Settling time: 0x28 | Tx/Rx margin: 0x0a | | Tx/Rx attenuation: 0x21 | ADC desired size: -32 | | PGA desired size: -80 | | \=========================================================/ /============== Per rate power calibration ===========\ | Freq | 6-24Mbit/s | 36Mbit/s | 48Mbit/s | 54Mbit/s | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 2412 | 19.01 | 18.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 2437 | 19.01 | 18.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | |======|============|==========|===========|==========| | 2472 | 19.01 | 18.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | \=====================================================/ /====================== Per channel power calibration ===================\ | Freq | pwr_i | pwr_0 | pwr_1 | pwr_2 | pwr_3 | | | pddac_i | pddac_0 | pddac_1 | pddac_2 | pddac_3 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 2412 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 0 | 10 | 27 | 54 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.00 | 19.00 | 22.00 | | | 13 | 23 | 40 | 74 | 127 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 2442 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 1 | 14 | 30 | 54 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.00 | 19.00 | 22.00 | | | 13 | 22 | 39 | 74 | 126 | |======|=========|=============|=============|=============|=============| | 2472 | | | | | | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 0 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | | | 3 | 13 | 33 | 56 | 0 | |------|---------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | | 7 | 11.00 | 15.50 | 19.50 | 22.00 | | | 12 | 23 | 45 | 83 | 130 | \========================================================================/ GPIO registers: CR 0x00000003, DO 0x00000000, DI 0x00000016 STA_ID0: 00:c0:ca:19:f0:a9 STA_ID1: 0x0000a9f0, AP: 0, IBSS: 0, KeyCache Disable: 0 TIMER0: 0x00000030, TBTT: 48, TU: 0x00010030 TIMER1: 0x0007ffff, DMAb: 65535, TU: 0x0000ffff (-49) TIMER2: 0x01ffffff, SWBA: 65535, TU: 0x003fffff (+4128719) TIMER3: 0x00000031, ATIM: 49, TU: 0x00010031 (+1) TSF: 0x00000000001ebaaa, TSFTU: 1966, TU: 0x000007ae BEACON: 0x00000000 LAST_TSTP: 0x8ba93e15 Is there anything I could try, to make this card usable? I have the this problem since a few years, but this time I made the first time further tests. The last test was done with linus-3.0-rc2. I have never tried the card with windows. Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
