Re: [ath5k-devel] Rookie needs helps with ath5k basics

2014-02-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
... because some of the 802.11p NICs are actually ath5k NICs that have the relevant bandpass filters for 5.9GHz and high output amplifiers. -a On 17 February 2014 01:27, Holger Schurig wrote: > Okay, I admit that I cannot help you, I have no clue on the driver level. > > But maybe I can help

Re: [ath5k-devel] Rookie needs helps with ath5k basics

2014-02-17 Thread Mathy
Hi, There are a few things you can do to better understand the driver code. First, knowing how the actual wireless chips works will help you to understand what the driver is trying to accomplish. You can find some of the manuals online. For example, for the AR5213: http://read.pudn.com/downloads89

Re: [ath5k-devel] Diagnostic register usage in ath5k

2014-02-17 Thread Mathy
Hi, Disclaimer: I have no experience with the ath5k driver. That said, to debug the issue you can create a debugfs entry to read the current value of the register. Then you can double check that you're correctly writing to it, and that no other code is overwriting your changes. Doing that might in

[ath5k-devel] Diagnostic register usage in ath5k

2014-02-17 Thread abhinav narain
Hi, There is a AR5K_DIAG_SW_5211 register in ath5k codebase (in reg.h) . I am using AR5212 NIC and even if I set all the bits of diagnostic register to be zero, my wireless works correctly. I wanted to know if I have to set some other things in the codebase in order for changes made in this registe

Re: [ath5k-devel] Rookie needs helps with ath5k basics

2014-02-17 Thread Holger Schurig
Okay, I admit that I cannot help you, I have no clue on the driver level. But maybe I can help with the methodology. :-) You mention 802.11p (car-to-car-communication). Is there any specific reason you base it on ath5k and not on ath9k? If you look at the number of commits, then you should see t