6.0-CURRENT as of yesterday, recompiled the kernel with options
device ath device ath_hal # Atheros HAL device ath_rate_onoe # Onoe rate control for ath driver
I use the ath0 driver also and I lose connection to the wireless router sometimes. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE and using a D-Ling wireless card. I have the driver compiled into the kernel but I don't have the following:
device ath_rate_onoe # Onoe rate control for ath driver
Do I need this? What does it do?
First, I'm not sure if this has made it into -STABLE yet, looking into the NOTES file on my 5.3p1 these options are not mentioned. I write these because there seems to be two mutually exclusive options:
device ath_rate_onoe # Onoe rate control for ath driver #device ath_rate_amrr # AMRR rate control for ath driver
mentioned in the NOTES file on 6.0. A look into the source, there is actually a good explanation of what his does:
* A rate control module is responsible for choosing the transmit rate * for each data frame. Management+control frames are always sent at * a fixed rate.
(see the source for more, /usr/src/sys/dev/ath/if_athrate.h)
Getting the transmissionrates right may solve the buffering problem, since if one end is sending too fast the other may run out of buffer. I guess that the previous driver also had such code, but the new code is better?
When I recompiled my kernel, I first did not include any of these and the compilation failed. So, I guess it is needed in that case :-)
Now, I'm just guessing, and code appears quite new, so try to see if things help or help debug :-)
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