| 28 May 2025 |
|  @vewil56528:matrix.org left the room. | 18:35:52 |
 emily | looks like I'm getting -67 dBm on 5 GHz from like, two meters away | 18:51:57 |
| emily | improved it by fiddling around: now it's -72! | 18:58:55 |
| emily | matthewcroughan: are those the kinds of figures you were getting before you worked around the EEPROM thing? | 18:59:09 |
 matthewcroughan | Yes, you need the txpower patcg | 18:59:34 |
| matthewcroughan | * | 18:59:39 |
| emily | I was kind of hoping they had fixed the issue by now. | 19:23:32 |
| emily | okay so it doesn't seem like it's actually calibration data at all? | 19:28:59 |
| emily | it's just the firmware | 19:29:01 |
 K900 | It is calibration data in the EEPROM | 19:29:45 |
| emily | right yeah I just saw that | 19:29:59 |
| emily | and the firmware has defaults I guess | 19:30:03 |
| emily | wonder if I can get them to refund/replace on AliExpress :p | 19:30:22 |
| emily | ah, so https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-R4/GettingStarted_BPI-R4#_improve_the_performance_of_radio_frequency_under_openwrt24_10_firmware is intended to be the official fix | 19:35:16 |
| emily | https://git01.mediatek.com/plugins/gitiles/openwrt/feeds/mtk-openwrt-feeds/+/930e04abfe39c3d80c255837ed66c01917f1f284 | 19:41:06 |
| emily | looks like Mediatek are actively working on OP-TEE stuff | 19:41:15 |
| emily | updated the firmware to the latest commit from mtk-openwrt-feeds; no improvement. going to try this file which has this diff from what's in the Git repo
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
00000000: 9079 [-0300-]{+0400+} 000c 4326 6010 000c 4326 6011 .y....C&`...C&`.
00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
00000160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000190: 1113 1b1a 131b 0808 [-600a-]{+e00a+} 0a0a 0000 8038 [-........`......8-]{+...............8+}
000001a0: 8000 001a 0300 0000 0101 0000 0010 [-0000-]{+0001+} ................
000001b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
000001c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
000001d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
| 19:52:32 |
| K900 | I don't think this is accurate | 20:00:54 |
| emily | it made a whole bunch of no difference | 20:00:59 |
| emily | well, it's a 3 bytes diff from the latest corresponding ROM in mediatek's repo | 20:01:26 |
| emily | so they did something to it | 20:01:36 |
| emily | unfortunately the something they did to it did not help at all | 20:01:46 |
| emily | I wonder how likely hassling them on AliExpress to ship me a card that has non-busted data is to work | 20:02:47 |
| emily | K900: do you have any idea how I'd set up the PPPoE hardware offload stuff? | 22:18:01 |
| emily | [ 2079.511504] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Down
[ 2079.517619] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered disabled state
[ 2083.343025] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 2083.343624] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered blocking state
[ 2083.356343] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered forwarding state
[ 2091.859502] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Down
[ 2091.865599] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered disabled state
[ 2097.297735] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 2097.298336] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered blocking state
[ 2097.311053] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered forwarding state
[ 2111.589748] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Down
[ 2111.595854] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered disabled state
[ 2117.160635] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 2117.161236] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered blocking state
[ 2117.173953] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered forwarding state
[ 2186.484320] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Down
[ 2186.490438] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered disabled state
[ 2190.219298] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 2190.219895] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered blocking state
[ 2190.232614] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered forwarding state
[ 2197.894816] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Down
[ 2197.900932] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered disabled state
[ 2200.471840] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 2200.472439] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered blocking state
[ 2200.485159] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered forwarding state
[ 2214.269201] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Down
[ 2214.275287] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered disabled state
[ 2216.846221] mt7530-mmio 15020000.switch lan1: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 2216.846822] br-lan: port 1(lan1) entered blocking state
| 22:22:40 |
| emily | awesome. | 22:22:44 |
| emily | this thing is haunted | 22:22:52 |
 ElvishJerricco | (I have no wifi 7 clients) | 22:24:35 |
| 29 May 2025 |
| emily | okay it looks like it's just getting used automatically with OpenWrt at least, cool | 00:31:10 |
| K900 | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
K900: do you have any idea how I'd set up the PPPoE hardware offload stuff? I think it should just like | 02:55:11 |
