Station dump empty in IBSS mode - CYW43455

[devchalada]

Hello,

I'm trying to build a small mesh network through 4 nodes out of raspberry pi B+ using your latest firmware for cyw43455. I first set up wlan0 interface to ibss. When trying to read data regarding neighbor nodes through nl80211, no information is returned. I can ping my neighbor node successfully and arp table is updated. When I execute "iw dev wlan0 station dump" no information is returned. When i execute "iw dev wlan0 get 11:11:11:11:11:11" i get data about a random neighbor and it's signal strength.

Thank you for your help !

[raks_99]

Hi @devchalada ,

Can you describe how to set this up? I can try to reproduce this on my RPI and check internally if there is any issue... , 

Also, are you using the firmware .bin file provided by raspberry pi or the one given by us in our driver release? Can you tell me the firmware verison?

Thanks,

[devchalada]

I'm using the latest firmware from https://github.com/Infineon/ifx-linux-firmware/tree/master/firmware. I replaced these files manually (with root privileges) :

cp cyfmac43455-sdio.bin  /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin

cp cyfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob  /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob

I can confirm through "dmesg" that the firmware loaded is from 2022 on my Pi 3B+.

To setup a mesh in ad-hoc mode (with root privileges):

rfkill unblock wlan

systemctl disable --now wpa_supplicant.service

iw wlan0 set type ibss

iw wlan0 ibss join MYMESH 2412

ip addr add 192.168.0.X/24 dev wlan0

With X ranges from 1 to 4 since the mesh has 4 Raspberry Pi 3B+. When I ping 192.168.0.X of the neighbor pi, I get a successful ping.

To dump info about all 1 hop stations in adhoc from the current station I tried:

iw dev wlan0 station dump

This returns nothing in ibss mode but used to show all stations in AP mode.

Using a fake mac address to dump station info in ibss mode, i get :

iw dev wlan0 station get 11:11:11:11:11:11

Station 11:11:11:11:11:11 (on MYMESH)

rx packets: 3011273

tx packets: 2102031

tx failed: 1205

signal:  -45 dBm

tx bitrate: 54.0 MBit/s

So the signal information of one of the stations is there but might not be returned properly by the firmware when dumping station info (Missing ioctl call) ?

[devchalada]

I'm using the latest firmware from https://github.com/Infineon/ifx-linux-firmware/tree/master/firmware. I replaced these files manually (with root privileges) :

cp cyfmac43455-sdio.bin  /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin

cp cyfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob  /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob

I can confirm through "dmesg" that the firmware loaded is from 2022 on my Pi 3B+.

To setup a mesh in ad-hoc mode (with root privileges):

rfkill unblock wlan

systemctl disable --now wpa_supplicant.service

iw wlan0 set type ibss

iw wlan0 ibss join MYMESH 2412

ip addr add 192.168.0.X/24 dev wlan0

With X ranges from 1 to 4 since the mesh has 4 Raspberry Pi 3B+. When I ping 192.168.0.X of the neighbor pi, I get a successful ping.

To dump info about all 1 hop stations in adhoc from the current station I tried:

iw dev wlan0 station dump

This returns nothing in ibss mode but used to show all stations in AP mode.

Using a fake mac address to dump station info in ibss mode, i get :

iw dev wlan0 station get 11:11:11:11:11:11

Station 11:11:11:11:11:11 (on MYMESH)

rx packets: 3011273

tx packets: 2102031

tx failed: 1205

signal:  -45 dBm

tx bitrate: 54.0 MBit/s

So the signal information of one of the stations is there but might not be returned properly by the firmware when dumping station info (Missing ioctl call) ?