Currently, the wifi detection script is executed as part of
the (early) boot process. Pluggable wifi USB devices, which
are inserted at a later time are not automatically
detected and therefore they don't show up in LuCI.
A user has to deal with wifi detection manually, or restart
the router.
However, the current "sleep 1" window - which the boot
process waits for wifi devices to "settle down" - is too
short to detect wifi devices for some routers anyway.
For example, this can happen with USB WLAN devices on the
WNDR4700. This is because the usb controller needs to load
its firmware from UBI and initialize, before it can operate.
The issue can be seen on a BT HomeHub 5A as well as soon as
the caldata are on an ubi volume. This is because the ath9k
card has to be initialized by owl-loader first. Which has to
wait for the firmware extraction script to retrieve the pci
initialization values inside the caldata.
This patch moves the wifi configuration to hotplug scripts.
For mac80211, the wifi configuration will now automatically
run any time a "ieee80211" device is added. Likewise
broadcom-wl's script checks for new "net" devices which
have the "wl$NUMBER" moniker.
Issues with spawning multiple interface configuration - in
case the detection script is run concurrently - have been
resolved by using a named section for the initial
configuration. Concurrent configuration scripts will now
simply overwrite the same existing configuration.
A workaround which preserves the "sleep 1" window for just
the first boot has been added. This allows the existing
brcm47xx boot and mvebu uci-default scripts to correctly
setup the initial mac addresses and regulatory domain.
And finally, the patch renames the "wifi detect" into
"wifi config". As the script no longer produces any output
that has to be redirected or appended to the configuration
file.
Thanks to Martin Blumenstingl for helping with the implementation
and testing of the patch.
Acked-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Previously, wifi detect simply dumped its generated wireless
configuration to STDOUT. A second step was needed to append
the configuration to /etc/config/wireless (or create it, if
it didn't exist).
With this patch, The wifi detection script will now use uci
to update the wireless configuration directly.
This patch also makes the initially created wifi-iface a
named section ('default_radio$X' for mac80211 and
'default_wl$X' for broadcom). With this change, uci will
not print the cfgHASH to STDOUT (which would now corrupt
the wireless configuration). It will also prevent adding
duplicated wifi interface configurations, if the wifi
configuration is run concurrently.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Without this patch adding the wifi device to the bridge may fail
because the bridge is not already configured when the wifi device gets
configured. This patch makes broadcom-wl wait till the bridge is ready.
This fixes#17262
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46749
- Support HT40 instead of HT40+/HT40- like mac80211
- Enable 11n if htmode is HT20 or HT40
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 43063
This adds default tx and rx antennas, so that LuCI shows automatic as the default radio option for the antennas.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 42085
Some devices have an nvram setting, which make broadcom-wl turn of the
led all the time. When the driver is switched on and we find such a
setting we replace it with a better value.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 41518
Read the number of virtual interfaces to support from the device
capabilities; as some newer devices can support up to 16.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hintz <nlhintz@hotmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 38759
Some devices initialize with a default address (common to all H/W).
The address needs to be changeable so that a unique address can be
assigned to each AP.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hintz <nlhintz@hotmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 38757
Default gmode to "GOnly" unless explicitly overwridden. This corrects
processing for 11ng to specify "GOnly" for gmode instead of "Auto"
(which translated to "bg").
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hintz <nlhintz@hotmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 38754
'nas' must be shutdown independently for each 'wl' device to properly
support devices with multiple radios. Do the shutdown when the device
is disabled instead of when it is brought up.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hintz <nlhintz@hotmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 38753
A single instance of 'nas' can support multiple interfaces; there's
no need to run multiple instances.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hintz <nlhintz@hotmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 38752
'netifd' treats all devices with a "." in their name as vlan devices.
Modify the name of virtual/WDS interfaces created by broadcom-wl to use
a "-" instead of a ".", so they will be treated as simple devices
by 'netifd'.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hintz <nlhintz@hotmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 38748
