[Voyage-linux] Long distance link and ath5k

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

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