Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: The fact remains that ath9k on Linux is not mature rock solid in all different modes and bands, and that hasn't really changed over the last year and a half I've been around, despite the endless hours that have been spent on

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Xianghua Xiao xiaoxiang...@gmail.com wrote: Almost all Atheros-based commercial products on the market are still based on Atheros's SDK, its driver is still madwifi-based but worked _reliably_. The IBSS/adhoc driver in that SDK is not fully done(especially

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-27 2:18 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: Larry Vaden wrote: I was refering exclusively to the ath9k code and community. .. I look at ath9k, Felix, Adrian et al as real sw folks who have forgotten more than I'll ever know wrt the specifics of the matter at hand. Yes Felix in

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 27 April 2011 15:52, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org wrote: I'm eager to test ath9k hardware with fbsd because Adrian indeed has much more than a clue. Sure, Adrian is good at what he does, but Atheros support in FreeBSD is still quite a bit behind, because for a long time very little work

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/4] ath9k_htc: Increase credit size for AR7010 devices

2011-04-27 Thread Sujith
From: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com Bump the firmware version to 1.2 Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h |2 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ath9k_htc: Remove unused WMI_AGGR_LIMIT_CMD

2011-04-27 Thread Sujith
From: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c |2 -- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h |1 - 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 3/4] ath9k_htc: Add a new WMI command to set a rate mask

2011-04-27 Thread Sujith
From: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com This patch adds WMI_BITRATE_MASK_CMDID which can be used by the set_bitrate_mask() handler. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h |7 +++

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ath9k_htc: Add set_bitrate_mask() callback

2011-04-27 Thread Sujith
From: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com This callback is used to set the minimum rate for management frames. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan sujith.manoha...@atheros.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c | 50 + 1 files changed, 50

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
Thanks! This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. Comments below. On Apr 26, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: Run node A in AP mode, have nodes B,C and D connect to it. Do lots of site scans use chans 1,6,11 as needed. Don't use any encryption. Use openvpn or

Re: [ath9k-devel] Wrt TP-Link TL-WN821N V3 (confusing/missing info on wiki)

2011-04-27 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 24 of April 2011 10:41:16 Sujith wrote: Hello (it stopped working completely recently in wireless-testing though: ieee80211 phy0: device no longer idle - working wlan0: direct probe to 68:7f:74:77:36:bc (try 1/3) wlan0: direct probe to 68:7f:74:77:36:bc (try 2/3) wlan0:

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 April 2011 01:03, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: Regarding the other direction this thread has taken, I also thought that the doom and gloom re: the status and future of ath9k was a bit overstated. It is disappointing to not have more direct support from Atheros but at least

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
WDS is crap, don't use it. You effectively half the available bandwidth per node in a WDS network, it's a hack and is only useful if you want coverage at the sacrifice of bandwidth of the link. On 28 April 2011 05:03, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: Thanks! This is the kind of feedback I

[ath9k-devel] curiosity killed the cat --- re: hostname=venema

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
I only know of one Venema in this world, Dr. Wietse Venema of postfix fame and more than a handful of other frequently used gems. How did this host get its name? ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: If I can make a suggestion, and you should take this as a hint about the direction you (being people on this list) should take - get into ath9k development. Show initiative and interest, get some work done, and ask for

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling j...@aenertia.net wrote: WDS is crap, don't use it. You effectively half the available bandwidth per node in a WDS network, it's a hack and is only useful if you want coverage at the sacrifice of bandwidth of the link. There is one vendor in

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 April 2011 09:27, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: There is one vendor in the marketplace where if you want layer 2 transparency on a p-t-p link, you VILL use WDS :( What's broken about WDS? Just that you halve bandwidth? Adrian ___

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 April 2011 09:25, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: Is http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html more or less the best reference for learning about bisecting patches? I think so. I'm not really up to date for doing Linux bisecting. :-) Adrian

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 April 2011 09:27, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: There is one vendor in the marketplace where if you want layer 2 transparency on a p-t-p link, you VILL use WDS :( What's broken about WDS? Just that you halve

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-28 2:58 AM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: WDS is crap, don't use it. You effectively half the available bandwidth per node in a WDS network, it's a hack and is only useful if you want coverage at the sacrifice of bandwidth of the link. WDS doesn't cut your bandwidth in half, repeating

Re: [ath9k-devel] What mode to use for wireless backhaul?

2011-04-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org wrote: On 2011-04-28 2:58 AM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: WDS is crap, don't use it. You effectively half the available bandwidth per node in a WDS network, it's a hack and is only useful if you want coverage at the sacrifice of

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k stopped queue bug

2011-04-27 Thread Mohammed Shafi
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli gnu...@no-log.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 20:41 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli gnu...@no-log.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 11:04 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote: please try