I used the trunk version (downloaded last 16th of July). We used ad-hoc mode. Regards Guido
Guido Alejandro Gavilanes Castillo, Ph.D. Networking Lab Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Via P.C. Boggio, 61 - TORINO (ITALY) tel +39 011.2276 608 fax: +39 011.2276 299 gavila...@ismb.com On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Chris Pattenden wrote: > Guido, > > I've tried changing the bwmode setting too, but I haven't had any luck. Which > version of the ath5k code/linux kernel are you using? > > How did you connect your devices? Which devices did you have on each end? > Were you using ad-hoc or AP & client? > > Thanks, > Christopher > > On 12-07-26 05:57 PM, Guido Alejandro Gavilanes Castillo wrote: >> Hello Chris, >> I have posted also a question on this last week (with no clue yet). >> From what I have seen googling here and there and checking the source >> code, the trunk version of compat-wireless includes already the software >> to work in 5, 10, 20 and 40 MHz bwmodes, being 20 MHz the default value >> "0". 10 MHz would be useful for me, since it is part of the 802.11p >> standard. >> >> The only way it seems to check how those modes are set is through the >> debug mode in (at least in my case with openwrt): >> /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath/ath5k/bwmode >> and it displays the current selection (which is hardcoded to the default >> 20 MHz value). >> >> Until now, I have "experimented" modifying (hardcoding) the default >> value of bwmode from 0 (20 MHz) to 2 (10 MHz) and it seems to work, >> since we have done some throughput tests, and the throughput halves, as >> expected. >> At the moment we only know this, it opens the question of why this >> functionality is already working without being enabled to the user. >> >> Hope this can be useful for you. >> In the meantime I keep up waiting for other answers to come :) >> Regards, >> >> Guido >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Chris Pattenden wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I'm working on a point-to-point long-distance application and I'd like >>> to run my ath5k device in 5 or 10 MHz bandwidth mode. Yes, I realize >>> this is non-standard and that's okay for this specific application. >>> >>> Both the MikroTik router and DD-WRT (running on a Doodle Labs ath5k) >>> seem to do this easily. Unfortunately, can't get the source for MikroTik >>> and I really don't want to use (or reverse engineer) DD-WRT. I need to >>> have this running on my own Linux-based hardware. >>> >>> I've been poking around with the latest ath5k driver on my system but I >>> haven't found the right configuration of PLL/whatever settings that make >>> this mode functional. >>> >>> Is there a simple way to force the interface into 5 or 10 MHz mode? Via >>> the PLLs? Could I change the channel parameters some how? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Chris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ath5k-devel mailing list >>> ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org <mailto:ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org> >>> https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel >> _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
