Ipq806x (r7500v2),Tue Feb 25 snapshot via imagebuilder wifi inoperable (ath10k-ct-htt firmware)

[anon98444528]

wifi did work on the Mon Feb. 24 snapshot via imagebuilder (no other change).

A likely clue from dmesg:

[   44.628614] ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: mac-vif-chan had error in htt_rx_h_vdev_channel, peer-id: 0  vdev-id: 0 peer-addr: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

I'm a bit preoccupied atm, but can respond (slowly) for requests for more info. Not sure yet where this question should go (@greearb or someone else...).

[slh]

Depending on the exact age of your build, there are two recent changes that might have an effect on your device:

• https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=d97b6204a20c54c0d2fdda9b616c91aae5ad36b6
  https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=930fc09803f1e75958d573bc55452b8ea61137be
• https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=d3b7838ebed98ae5cf064a3890b0fd3f16b9a664
  https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1dd7732729a7b54890095187cd1766a773051d1

I'm successfully using r12315-e8fae62f64 from the 25th on my nbg6817/ QCA9984 (that commit is after the two ath10k-ct patches, but before the wifi reload ones).

ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: NOTE:  Firmware DBGLOG output disabled in debug_mask: 0x10000000
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: unsupported HTC service id: 1536
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: 10.4 wmi init: vdevs: 16  peers: 48  tid: 96
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: msdu-desc: 2500  skid: 32
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'P 48/48 V 16 K 144 PH 176 T 186  msdu-desc: 2500  sw-crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi print 'free: 81800 iram: 13300 sram: 14440'
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Firmware lacks feature flag indicating a retry limit of > 2 is OK, requested limit: 4

I would suggest to build from source and try the relevant commit states individually:

• f2fc7a62c012c6fc58a87b87cf123463c684a685 right before all these changes
• 930fc09803f1e75958d573bc55452b8ea61137be just after the two ath10k-ct changes
• current HEAD (a1dd7732729a7b54890095187cd1766a773051d1 or later), including the wifi reload changes.

Edit: this is with ath10k-firmware-qca9984-ct-htt - 2019-10-03-d622d160-1

[anon98444528]

thanks for that,

my other thought is to just try the non htt ath10k-ct firmware.

it may take a day or two for me to get too it tho.

[greearb]

If it is just a warning about a bad reported rate, it should not be a real problem and you can ignore it. I have higher priority problems to work on first but will get to that eventually.

[anon98444528]

I think the issue comes from commits mac80211: enhance wifi reload and hostapd: enhance wifi reload

from logcat:

Wed Feb 26 09:15:02 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy1.conf (phy wlan1) --> new PHY
Wed Feb 26 09:15:02 2020 daemon.err hostapd: Line 19: unknown configuration item 'radio_config_id'
Wed Feb 26 09:15:02 2020 daemon.err hostapd: 1 errors found in configuration file '/var/run/hostapd-phy1.conf'
Wed Feb 26 09:15:02 2020 daemon.err hostapd: Failed to set up interface with /var/run/hostapd-phy1.conf
Wed Feb 26 09:15:02 2020 daemon.notice netifd: radio1 (1003): Command failed: Invalid argument
Wed Feb 26 09:15:03 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf (phy wlan0) --> new PHY
Wed Feb 26 09:15:03 2020 daemon.err hostapd: Line 24: unknown configuration item 'radio_config_id'
Wed Feb 26 09:15:03 2020 daemon.err hostapd: 1 errors found in configuration file '/var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf'
Wed Feb 26 09:15:03 2020 daemon.err hostapd: Failed to set up interface with /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf
Wed Feb 26 09:15:03 2020 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (1002): Command failed: Invalid argument

reverting these commits brings back wifi but @blogic via irc suggested:

make package/hostapd/clean && make

which retains the commits with functional wifi.

Thank you all for your help. I'll mark this as solved once the issues is resolved in master.