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New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)
This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices,
including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU.
It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack.
After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au
driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to
rewrite this driver from the bottom up.
Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry
Finger for help with the vendor driver.
The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here:
git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git
branch rtl8723au-mac80211
This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very
stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support
for OFDM and CCK rates. It does lack certain features found in the
staging driver, such as power management, AMPDU, and 40MHz channel
support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and monitor mode
support at this point.
The driver is known to work with the following devices:
Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au)
TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu)
Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu)
Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu)
Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru)
Compile tested only
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 48104
We don't use Kernel drivers but ucode -16 is
usable on Kernel 4.3+ - with backports and mac80211
this should work on older Kernel versions too.
Intel does not provide a changelog.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 48103
The "iw" utility expects the VHT80 to be specified as uppercase "80MHZ",
change the script to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 47814
Update dependencies for linux 4.4 and mark as broken where source code
needs updating.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 47700
compat-wireless/backports now contains a bcm47xx_nvram.h file to
backport some of the functions in it which are used by the bcmfmac
driver. This file just checks for the kernel versions and provide an
empty implementations on older kernel versions. This is OK on most
systems, but on bcm47xx / bcm53xx systems we want to call the real
functions here. This commit removes the file from backports in our
build process like we do it with the bcma and ssb header files. Instead
we add a recent version into our kernel so all code uses only one
header file. On bcm47xx / bcm53xx the real implementations of this code
will be used.
Reported-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 47467
Add a new config option "channels" for mac80211 wifi devices. It's only
valid if automatic channel selection is used and restricts the channel
selection to one of the given channels.
config wifi-device
list channels 1
list channels 6
list channels 11
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
SVN-Revision: 47427
In order to set the multicast rate for mesh point interfaces the "mesh join"
was made explicit and moved to mac80211_setup_vif(), similar to how it is
done for IBSS interfaces.
Previously, the mesh join was made implicit in case authentication (i.e.
$key) was not used when creating the interface in mac80211_prepare_vif(),
while using authentication would create the interface first, then join
later in mac80211_setup_vif() by starting authsae.
Signed-off-by: Nils Schneider <nils@nilsschneider.net>
SVN-Revision: 47408
llid_in_use needs to be limited to stations of the same VIF, otherwise it
will cause a NULL deref as the sta_info of non-mesh-VIFs don't have
sta->mesh set.
Steps to reproduce:
modprobe mac80211_hwsim channels=2
iw phy phy0 interface add ibss0 type ibss
iw phy phy0 interface add mesh0 type mp
iw phy phy1 interface add ibss1 type ibss
iw phy phy1 interface add mesh1 type mp
ip link set ibss0 up
ip link set mesh0 up
ip link set ibss1 up
ip link set mesh1 up
iw dev ibss0 ibss join foo 2412
iw dev ibss1 ibss join foo 2412
# Ensure that ibss0 and ibss1 are actually associated; I often need to
# leave and join the cell on ibss1 a second time.
iw dev mesh0 mesh join bar
iw dev mesh1 mesh join bar # crash
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
SVN-Revision: 47364
This patch fix https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/
2015-August/034979.html. As the peak detect calibration is set
incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46948
The driver only supports wl18xx-fw-4.bin and does not support the old
firmware wl18xx-fw-3.bin and more.
The wl18xx-conf.bin file was removed upstream it does not fit all
devices any more, see this on how to generate one:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Open_Source_Wireless_Connectivity_wlconf
If someone has a config file for the common platforms with the wifi nic
OpenWrt uses please send a patch.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46887
- should fix issue: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=57315
- enable support of more USB stick with rt28xx chipsets
- experimental: USB-IDs not in vendor linux driver
- experimental: "exact chipset is unknown"
- experimental: "enabling these devices may or may not work"
only compile tested
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 46882
Everything except for blkcipher was already built-in, so make blkcipher
built-in as well.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46820
So far support for multiple interface was somehow broken in brcmfmac.
Driver couldn't correctly match firmware and system interfaces resulting
in not working APs and WARNINGs. This pending patches fixes that :)
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 46734
We sill don't use kernel 4.2 which is required for backporting using
upstream NVRAM support patch.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 46724
The ipw2x00 drivers assume that the system they are running is little
endian, and access everything in native byte order. When run on a big
endian system, everything breaks apart.
Since fixing this is non trivial on a first glance, disable them for
big endian targets.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46708
firmware is not available in linux-firmware yet
so use official driver source
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 46682
An #ifdef for the kernel version was missing around the header of
debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() and the LINUX_BACKPORT() was also not
done.
This closes#20181
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46492
Ath debug mode applies to ath10k as well as ath9k.
Update Makefile help text to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
SVN-Revision: 46468
Added option for old firmware version (10.1 API v2). It seems that recent
firmware versions are constantly crashing (at least on a QCA9880-BR4A-R) and
this provides the option to select an older version instead.
Signed-off-by: Günther Kelleter <guenther.kelleter@devolo.de>
SVN-Revision: 46340
Ath10k has now a proper method of providing calibration data via
the kernel firmware API. This patch can be dropped as all boards
now use the proper method.
Signed-off-by: Matti Laakso <malaakso@elisanet.fi>
SVN-Revision: 46245
reorder some parts of the patch to remove the declaration-after-
statement warning.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46205
Current firmware should work for station mode as well, and the older
firmware will usually behave worse and become unsupported over time.
Also, the MAC address handling on ar71xx is only implemented on one
firmware version.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46197
This firmware adds support for management frames over normal
packet transport interface instead of over the WMI management
interface.
Signed-off-by: Matti Laakso <malaakso@elisanet.fi>
SVN-Revision: 46195
