On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Alberto Botti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know that madwifi in OpenWrt doesn't support the Nanostation antenna > selection* , but by looking at the DD-WRT changelog I've found an > interesting patch "antenna selection for ns2" > http://svn.dd-wrt.com:8000/dd-wrt/changeset/9381 > > It looks like a small patch (apart from the whitespace noise) that > messes with some gpio settings (of what? the board? the wireless chip?) > and not directly with madwifi or the HAL. > > Anyone has more clues? Is a similar trick possible with OpenWrt or is > DD-WRT using a different madwifi? I know I should've tried it myself but > my own Nanostation still has to ship :( > > > > > > * the Nanostation is a low-cost router with a software selectable > dual-polarity integrated antenna that appears to work only with Ubiquiti > AirOS (stock OpenWrt with madwifi only enables the external connector) > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
If you are using the internal antenna's on a ns2 they currently work via the madwifi rx(tx)antenna settings but to use the external antenna you need to install gpioctl and set softled to 0 for wifi0 in sysctl, then use gpioctl to set pin 7 low. Travis _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
