Use the candelatech firmware for the QCA Wave-2 firmware.
The Qualcomm firmware used for the IPQ401x chip in OpenWrt in 22.03
is experiencing heavily degraded performance due to excessive
retransmits when using A-MSDU. Disabling VHT modes or switching to the
candelatech firmware circumvents this issue.
Apply the same to other Wave-2 platforms in order to keep consistency
with upstream.
Wave-1 chips do not support mesh modes with the -ct firmware, so keep
using the QCA firmware in their case.
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
- [x] must be flashable from vendor firmware
- [ ] webinterface
- [ ] tftp
- [x] other: Console port available. Manufacturer specific cable required.
Tutorial in OpenWRT commit message https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c6e972c8772a628a1a2f2e5590d7c6f4acef9ab0
- [x] must support upgrade mechanism
- [x] must have working sysupgrade
- [x] must keep/forget configuration (if applicable)
*think `sysupgrade [-n]` or `firstboot`*
- [x] must have working autoupdate
root@Aruba-AP-303H:~# lua -e 'print(require("platform_info").get_image_name())'
aruba-ap-303h
- [x] reset/wps/phone button must return device into config mode
- [x] primary mac should match address on device label (or packaging) (https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/hardware.html#notes)
- wired network
- [x] should support all network ports on the device
- [x] must have correct port assignment (WAN/LAN)
- wifi (if applicable)
- [x] association with AP must be possible on all radios
- [x] association with 802.11s mesh must be working on all radios
- [x] ap/mesh mode must work in parallel on all radios
- led mapping
- power/sys led (_critical, because led definitions are setup on firstboot only_)
- [x] lit while the device is on
- [x] should display config mode blink sequence
(https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/configmode.html)
- radio leds
- [x] should map to their respective radio
- [x] should show activity
- switchport leds
- [x] should map to their respective port (or switch, if only one led present)
- [x] should show link state and activity
- outdoor devices only
- [ ] added board name to `is_outdoor_device` function in `package/gluon-core/luasrc/usr/lib/lua/gluon/platform.lua`
- ToDo (upstream):
- enable PoE pass through on interface E3
system.poe_passthrough=gpio_switch
system.poe_passthrough.name='PoE Passthrough'
system.poe_passthrough.gpio_pin='446'
system.poe_passthrough.value='0' (0 is active)
This device is a dual 5GHz device. It is recommended to manually change the
radio of the first device to the lower 5GHz channels and the second radio
to the upper 5GHz channels
This commit assigns class-flags to devices. The following scheme is
used:
- ath9k & ath10k: tiny if RAM <128M
- ath10k & ath10k: tiny if RAM <256M
- all: tiny if RAM <64M
- all: tiny if flash <8M
All other devices automatically have the default device-class selected.
The Aruba Instant On AP11 is the Aruba AP-303 with a stripped-down
firmware. Add an alias for the device to remove confusion about the
different naming.
