Re: [lime] Radio 5ghz (qca9880) on archer c5 v1 does not wor…

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Author: Martin Kennedy
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To: LibreMesh.org project mailing list
Subject: Re: [lime] Radio 5ghz (qca9880) on archer c5 v1 does not work properly
Hi there,

LrOs is not officially[1] built for the C5; if it were, perhaps a
tweak could be made so that LrOs' default packages for this target's
ath10k card were different; see (if LrOs is a direct fork of OpenWrt)
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/target/linux/ath79/image/generic-tp-link.mk#L55.

Other than recompiling from scratch: you have the kmod-ath10k-ct and
ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct packages driving your ath10k (QCA9880-BR1A,
probably) radio. These are the default packages for OpenWrt for this
board target. These are the Candelatech variants of the drivers and do
not support mesh mode[2].

To change over to the non-Candelatech packages, you could:

- remove kmod-ath10k-ct and ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct
- install ath10k-firmware-qca988x and kmod-ath10k (in that order)

.... but I am not that well-versed in LrOs, only OpenWrt. In
particular I notice the package manifests only have wpad-basic and not
e.g. wpad-mesh-wolfssl. Some custom stuff has happened here that
others should speak to.

[1]: https://downloads.libremesh.org/librerouteros/releases/1.5/targets/ath79/generic/
[2]: https://github.com/greearb/ath10k-ct/issues/174

Best,

Martin

Martin


On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 7:15 AM Hiure via LibreMesh <libremesh@???> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an issue here.
>
> Trying to build firmware (I use LrOs-v1.5) to diferents firmwares that
> we have in our community network , i had a issue with this especific
> model (https://deviwiki.com/wiki/TP-LINK_Archer_C5_v1.x),and need some
> help to undestand:
>
> wlan0-mesh ESSID: unknown
>           Access Point: 30:B5:C2:56:C0:99
>           Mode: Mesh Point  Channel: unknown (unknown)
>           Tx-Power: 0 dBm  Link Quality: unknown/70
>           Signal: unknown  Noise: -101 dBm
>           Bit Rate: unknown
>           Encryption: none
>           Type: nl80211  HW Mode(s): 802.11nac
>           Hardware: 168C:003C 0000:0000 [Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880]
>           TX power offset: none
>           Frequency offset: none
>           Supports VAPs: yes  PHY name: phy0

>
> in dmesg i found:
>
> [ 92.111537] overlayfs: upper fs does not support tmpfile.
> [ 350.277932] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: 10.1 wmi init: vdevs: 16
> peers: 127 tid: 256
> [ 350.295439] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'P 128 V 8 T 410'
> [ 350.301823] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'msdu-desc: 1424 sw-
> crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
> [ 350.309973] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'alloc rem: 20984
> iram: 25656'
> [ 350.378714] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pdev param 0 not supported by
> firmware
> [ 350.393665] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: set-coverage-class, phyclk: 88
> value: -1
> [ 350.402059] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): tmp.phy0: link is not ready
> [ 355.759072] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: 10.1 wmi init: vdevs: 16
> peers: 127 tid: 256
> [ 355.776571] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'P 128 V 8 T 410'
> [ 355.782953] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'msdu-desc: 1424 sw-
> crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
> [ 355.791140] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'alloc rem: 20984
> iram: 25656'
> [ 355.859763] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pdev param 0 not supported by
> firmware
> [ 355.867103] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: must load driver with rawmode=1
> to add mesh interfaces
>
>
> Anyone had this issues before?
>
> thanks
> Hiure
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