[Voyage-linux] minstrel rate

[Frederico Marques]

Hi Xavier,

On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Xavier Martinez wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As madwifi doesn't work properly in ad-hoc mode, we are trying to  
> use the minstrel rate algorithm to improve performance in atheros  
> based devices. We've obtained good results with nanostation devices  
> and we would like to try with voyage (WRAPS and ALIX). However, we  
> don't know how to activate the minstrel rate algorithm on boot by  
> default instead of the sample. Anyone could give advice on this?  
> We've tried "modprobe ath_pci rate=minstrel" but this not seems to  
> work.

I have very good results (so far) with madwifi 0.9.4 (with any  
sensitivity patch 2) on adhoc mode + minstrel rate:

https://madwifi.org/attachment/ticket/705/ani_sensitivity_fix_v2.diff
https://madwifi.org/ticket/705

To activate the minstrel rate algorithm on Voyage/Debian, just modify  
your /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi to include this:

options ath_pci autocreate=none ratectl=minstrel

Regards,

Fred