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

[Sean]

Cool, what hardware do you use with OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09?

Sean

Outback Dingo wrote:
> 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) 
> <mailto:(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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