[Olsr-users] Favorite Madwifi drivers, patches and settings for Adhoc?

[Outback Dingo]

Odd i use 8.09 on 60+ nodes deployed with ahdemo and security... what issues
did you see, Ive not recognized any

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Derek C <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> I've had better luck with ahdemo mode (no network splits but no security
> either...).
>
> I've had lots of problems with diversity settings with various hardware
> including WRAP x86/CM9 cards and Ubiquiti NS2 units -I still don't know
> what the right settings are really and sometimes setting diversity to 0
> seems to be ignored because I see the txantenna and rxantenna numbers
> jumping around anyway - it eventually seemed to work so I looked the other
> way :s.
>
> I've settled on kamikaze 8.09_rc1 (rc2 and the new stable releases caused
> me a nightmare and lots of lost days with not being able to make one node
> ping a very nearby node so a problem with madwifi versions maybe?) - this
> is weird and I should really look into it a bit more.
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Thu, March 12, 2009 11:55 pm, Sean wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I wanted to get some info on how people are implementing OLSR with
> > Atheros chipsets and adhoc. I have been messing around with settings and
> > drivers. So far I have seen some improvement with madwifi-hal-testing.
> >
> >
> http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/news/20080829/new-hal-release-for-atheros
> > -hardware
> >
> >
> > Some settings I've seen so far:
> > iwpriv ath0 mode 3                  #force 802.11g mode iwpriv ath0
> bgscan
> > 0                #turn off background scanning iwconfig ath0 ap
> > 02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be  #force bssid to prevent network
> > splits
> >
> > disable diversity (especially if you only have one connected antenna)
> > sysctl -w dev.wifi0.diversity=0 sysctl -w dev.wifi0.txantenna=1 sysctl -w
> > dev.wifi0.rxantenna=1
> >
> > or this, depending on your card sysctl -w dev.wifi0.diversity=0 sysctl -w
> > dev.wifi0.txantenna=2 sysctl -w dev.wifi0.rxantenna=2
> >
> > Any other drivers, patches or settings?
> >
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
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