[Voyage-linux] minstrel rate

[Xavier Martinez]

2008/8/13 Frederico Marques <frederico at marques.cx>

> 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


Bad luck with madwifi 0.9.4 with the ani patch v2 and the minstrel rate
algorithm in ad-hoc mode and olsr running.

We get a lot of errors "rix 255 (0) bad ratekbps 0 mode 2" on both wifi
interfaces. Any idea?



>
>
> 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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