Issue with ATH10K driver while bringing up mesh interface

[Raj Joshi]

Hi Sridhar,

Looking at only the error, I can say that you need to load the ath10k
driver with rawmode=1 parameter. Try the following commands in
sequence:
(text following # are comments)

sudo modprobe -r ath10k_pci   # unloads ath10k_pci
sudo modprobe -r ath10k_core # unloads ath10k_core
sudo modprobe ath10k_core rawmode=1 # loads back ath10k_core with rawmode=1
sudo modprobe ath10k_pci # loads back ath10k_pci

I am writing sudo assuming you are a sudoer and not root. You could
also do it in an auto manner following [1]

Cheers,
Raj Joshi

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_modules#Using_files_in_.2Fetc.2Fmodprobe.d.2F

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sridhar Kondabathini <sridhark at cdot.in> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>    When we are trying to bring up AP to add mesh interfaces on T1024 board with
> kernel-3.12; ath10k drivers backported from 4.4;hostapd 2.5 for 11AC support is
> used, then we are getting below error -
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> T1024# ifconfig mesh0
>
> mesh0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 04:f0:21:1b:7d:b6
>           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> T1024# ifconfig mesh0 0.0.0.0 up
>
> [ 8694.385554] ath10k_pci 0001:03:00.0: must load driver with rawmode=1 to add mesh
> interfaces
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> How to resolve this issue, can you please help on this.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sridhar Kondabathini,
> Research engineer,
> PSG lab,
> Center for Development Of Telematics
> 9480484821.
>
>
>
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