Hi Gertjan, suddenly i do not have HW to test it. My ar7010+ar2080 adapter has blacklisted AP and IBSS modes for all 5GHz channels.
If some one else can answer here, it will be great. Am 28.11.2013 00:54, schrieb Gertjan Hofman: > > > Apologies if this should go to the ath mailing list, but we are not sure > where in the stack the problem lies. > > On a 3.11 kernel, we are trying to create a AP host using the following > hardware: driver (usb) ath9k_htc: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 using htc_7010.fw > firmware (1.3, extracted from debian unstable) After solving some > regulatory domain issues by patching the ath driver, we can force the card > into becoming master at 5 GHz. However, at 5GHz, the clients are isolated > from each other (can not ping etc). When we switch back to 2.4 GHz (making > only two changes in the hostapd file, hw_mode=a->g, channel=36->1) the system > works as expected. > > > Using wireshark/tcpdump I verified that ARP packets are _not_ transmitted > from the AP host to other clients. In other words, ARP from client to AP > hosts are resolved ok, but a client trying to resolve the MAC from another > client gets no response and the packet is not seen even on a Windows host > running wireshark. Switch to 2.4 GHz and the ARP packets return. > > > Looking at mac80211/cfg.c, I see that host isolation is indeed an option. I > printed the value of IEEE80211_SDATA_DONT_BRIDGE_PACKETS but it is false as > expected. > > > Can anyone tell me whether this is likely a problem at the mac80211 levelor > the firmware ? Are there other settings that kick in a 5 GHz that would not > at 2.4 GHz ? > > We are quite capable of modifying drivers but have little knowledge of > wireless hardware. Any information would be much appreciated. > > > Sincerely, > > Gertjan > > > hostapd (v1.1) settings are: > interface=wlan0 > driver=nl80211 > ssid=MSS-01 > ieee80211n=1 > macaddr_acl=0 > auth_algs=1 > ignore_broadcast_ssid=1 > require_ht=1 > ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-40][TXSTBC][RXSTBC123] > wmm_enabled=1 > hw_mode=a > channel=36 > country_code=US > ap_isolate=0 > -- Regards, Oleksij _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
