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Zero Hunter
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:46    Post subject: Reply with quote
First let me say thank you for the reply and suggestions.

I have one of the newer Alix boards (I think) as from the factory it had the newest bios.

As to the power supply I have a 4.5Amp 16v Power supply From laptop, so I am pretty sure that is not the problem.

Funny the SR71-12 uses that same 9220 Chip that your card uses, I would not even worry to much about the N, if the G was good but even it sucks.

If you find that article again about the PC-Engine and the Power I would love to see it, as I am wondering if it has something to do with the PC-Engine's Mini-PCI slot not getting the power to the card even though there is even power from the power supply.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:12    Post subject: Reply with quote
Zero Hunter wrote:
First let me say thank you for the reply and suggestions.

I have one of the newer Alix boards (I think) as from the factory it had the newest bios.

As to the power supply I have a 4.5Amp 16v Power supply From laptop, so I am pretty sure that is not the problem.

Funny the SR71-12 uses that same 9220 Chip that your card uses, I would not even worry to much about the N, if the G was good but even it sucks.

If you find that article again about the PC-Engine and the Power I would love to see it, as I am wondering if it has something to do with the PC-Engine's Mini-PCI slot not getting the power to the card even though there is even power from the power supply.


Don't have much time on my hands right now and my google-fu doesn't seem to work today, all I could find was on their official site: http://pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm

Changes from ALIX.2C (the one I have)
"Add second POSCAP to ruggedize 3.3V rail for high power radio cards."

I guess you have a D version if you just got it anyway, so that should rule out this.. plus your power supply is way overkill for your box anyway. Myself I just have an 18V/0.8A supply, and it's running smooth.

Really no clue, bad card? Or driver issue. A quick google on your card SR71-12 says it's based on Atheros AR9160. So it might be different than mine. I really havent kept myself up to date with all these N-cards..

And here (http://store.netgate.com/SR71-12-80211bgn-MIMO-miniPCI-Card-P306C26.aspx) it reads: "Ubiquiti SR71-12: 802.11b/g/n MIMO miniPCI Card

Currently, this card only works with the Ubiquiti LiteStation SR71 board."

But that sounds a bit awkward.

My vote goes to driver/card issue, don't think I can help you any more then that. :/
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:36    Post subject: SR71-12 - No Luck Reply with quote
Again let me thank you for taking the time to do some searching about my card and other equipment.

The SR71-12 is definitely based on the 9220 chip:

http://ubnt.com/downloads/sr71_12_ds.pdf

I see that some of the sales places state the 9160, but they are wrong. So maybe again, the card you have is working as the drivers that DD-WRT team has put out function correctly with the 9160 Chip and NOT the 9220 chip.

I could get past that if I bought something that was odd, but being that the DD-WRT shop sells the card

http://www.dd-wrt.com/shop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=1005


and does not bother to support it, with software that is also charged for, pisses me off!

The even funnier thing is that if you take a look at the specs for the SR71-12 listed in the DD-WRT Shop page it states that its the:

Chipset: Atheros, AR9610 with DFS SUPPORT

But if you look at the picture very closely its actually the SR71-A card. I would of offered my card for testing but with the store stating that they 50 in stock, I have to guess they have one to test with and maybe make working drivers.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
Talk about a jungle of misinformation when it comes to these atheros chipsets and their respective drivers. Shocked

I'd be damn pissed too if I were you. Would be nice to see if any dd-wrt dev/admin/owner could step up and enlighten us a little bit here.. But I wouldn't bet on it, they are awfully shy those people it seems..
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:30    Post subject: Reply with quote
fyi
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#supported_chipsets
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Features_and_modes_of_operation
one thing is the hw another the sw support of hw features!

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sash wrote:
fyi
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#supported_chipsets
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Features_and_modes_of_operation
one thing is the hw another the sw support of hw features!


Thanks for the info.

As this thread is about new builds I thought I'd mention a bug I've run into a couple of times now.

When I connect with PPTP VPN to the dd-wrt router from my android phone, all is fine as long as I only access local resources (anything inside the local network), but when I access the internet through the VPN, it seems the whole box goes down, and stops responding to anything (both data through the tunnel and for local machines). Only pulling the plug and restarting it gets it back up on it's feet again.

Happened three times so far. Seems easy to reproduce.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 0:00    Post subject: Reply with quote
spock521 wrote:
Sash wrote:
fyi
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#supported_chipsets
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Features_and_modes_of_operation
one thing is the hw another the sw support of hw features!


Thanks for the info.



I guess I am a little dumb, I looked at the links, if I am reading it correct the 9220 chip is supported; so how did that answer my question about the card working with the DD-WRT Wireless Driver set that has to be purchased?

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:46    Post subject: Reply with quote
Zero Hunter wrote:
spock521 wrote:
Sash wrote:
fyi
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#supported_chipsets
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Features_and_modes_of_operation
one thing is the hw another the sw support of hw features!


Thanks for the info.



I guess I am a little dumb, I looked at the links, if I am reading it correct the 9220 chip is supported; so how did that answer my question about the card working with the DD-WRT Wireless Driver set that has to be purchased?


No I don't think we're dumb. Smile He just tried to explain it to us using as few key-strokes as possible. Maybe he thinks we are! Razz

The way I have understood it is like this; the atheros wifi cards have a controller-chip and a radio-chip, and even though our cards might be the same 9220 or whatever version, their specs and hw/sw control routines can differ. Atleast thats what I understand from "one thing is the hw another the sw support of hw features!".

One would think that a 9220 is in fact the same as another 9220. But we have obviously proven that this is not the case. Funny isn't it?

Really don't know what to say. Starting to find it a bit funny, even though I understand your frustration. Especially when they sell your particular card as a supported card in their shop, talk about bumming people out.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sash, changeset 17958 http://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/17958 has something to do with the PPTP VPN issues I mentioned earlier?

OT here, but I always wondered if I can compile the svn nightlies x86 professional versions myself to try out new builds? Since they need activation I always thought you add some special code/kernel modules to it to make it operate, so in essence I wouldn't be able to compile it with full features. Or how does it work?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 15:08    Post subject: Reply with quote
New builds are up, time for some testing!

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads?path=others%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F2011%2F

edit: but they got removed pretty fast Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:47    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did a webupgrade with factory reset to 17967 now, and it all seems to be working smooth.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads?path=others%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F2011%2F

There was a build up in the middle of the day yesterday that totally screwed up the router, but they it was removed quickly..
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:03    Post subject: Reply with quote
USB automount and NAS works more or less.. this is the output from automount:

Code:
--- /dev/sdb
Block device, size 7.480 GiB (8032092160 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 7.480 GiB (8032048128 bytes, 15687594 sectors from 6)
Type 0x0B (Win95 FAT32)
FAT32 file system (hints score 4 of 5)
Volume size 7.465 GiB (8015269888 bytes, 1956853 clusters of 4 KiB)
Status: Not mounted


But it does get mounted at /tmp/mnt/sdb_part1

Using NAS feature this can then be shared with samba successfully.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
Don't know if devs care since they never really reply about issues here but the tx power is still always showing 0 dBm.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 14:10    Post subject: Reply with quote
what does the cli tell about the txpower?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 14:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sash wrote:
what does the cli tell about the txpower?


Code:

root@plato:~# iwconfig ath0
ath0    IEEE 802.11abgn  Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off



mon.ath0 if showing the exact same..
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