[Voyage-linux] Re: Long distance link and ath5k

[Beat Meier]

jose

Have long distance links with madwifi, hostapd/wpa_supplicant and
voyage-0.5.2
Works very nice.
Longest p2p link I have is 25km in 5.8Ghz ...

Greetings

Beat


On 03/30/2011 09:43 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> Ok, so, I guess no one actually do long-distance (>5km) links with
> voyage..... sigh.
>
> I guess I'll use madwifi, and downgrade hostapd.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Ildefonso.
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
> <ildefonso.camargo at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to make a long distance link work with ath5k driver
>> (because voyage-included 0.7.3 hostapd doesn't support madwifi), so I
>> decided to give a try to ath5k, but, just got the surprise that,
>> afaik, I can't change ack timeout and other parameters on ath5k :( ,
>> and I'm getting this on the AP log:
>>
>> Jan  1 00:10:50 ap1 hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:02:6f:39:cb:8e IEEE 802.11:
>> did not acknowledge authentication response
>>
>> Now, searching through the web:
>>
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath5k.devel/4742
>>
>> It looks like, at some point, the "set distance" thing was added, but,
>> that doesn't seem to work on voyage.
>>
>> I have been searching through the web for quite some time now, but no luck.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Ildefonso Camargo
>>
>>     
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