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

[Outback Dingo]

its a 100% pure Ubiquiti network, using NS2 (Nanos), PicoStation2HPs,
LiteStations, RouterStation, Bullet2, Bullet2HP and Bullet5

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Sean <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> 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
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Olsr-users mailing list
> >     > (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>
> >     > http://lists.olsr.org/mailman/listinfo/olsr-users
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     --
> >     Derek C
> >     In Ireland
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Olsr-users mailing list
> >     (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>
> >     http://lists.olsr.org/mailman/listinfo/olsr-users
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Olsr-users mailing list
> (spam-protected)
> http://lists.olsr.org/mailman/listinfo/olsr-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.olsr.org/pipermail/olsr-users/attachments/20090328/99d2add0/attachment.html>