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

[Derek C]

Hi OD,

Are you using the security plugin in OLSRd or madwifi (I didn't know
Ahdemo could do encryption)

thanks

Derek

On Mon, March 23, 2009 8:21 am, 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)> 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-ather
>> os
>>> -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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