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

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

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
>