[Voyage-linux] minstrel rate

[Frederico Marques]

Hi again,

Also to mention, the only bug I'm watching right now is related to  
this ticket. Anybody here with the same problem?

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1835

Fred

On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Frederico Marques wrote:

> 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
>
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