On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Partha Bagchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Partha Bagchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Don't forget, I already copied the ath9k subdrirectory from the latest >>> tree and applied the patch and compiled it. Is there anything >>> intrinsic about the 2.6.27 kernel that will help the connection? >> >> You get a new shiny mac80211 with all the patches that went in for it. >> We can't add the new mac80211 to compat-wireless-old as you did with >> ath9k as 2.6.27 had the struct net_device change quite a lot (new TX >> multiqueue changes) and backporting this was a major pain in the ass. >> Hence we have compat-wireless-old for <= 2.6.26 and compat-wireless >> for >= 2.6.27. >> >> Still, if someone wants to go over all 2.6.27 mac80211 patches and >> apply them to compat-wireless-old except for the TX MQ related ones, >> that should work, but you'll have to find someone with enough >> motivation to do it. >> >> Luis >> > > Thanks. I see your point. I am not sure I can do the job of backporting. > > I will investigate updating the kernel from rawhide. > > One additional question. I seem to be dropping connection much faster > (every 5 or 10 minutes) in the evening compared to the the morning and > afternoon (every 30 to 40 minutes). Any theories on this?
More noise when people get home perhaps, depends on where you live. We haven't yet added ANI which should help with that, but work is underway for it. ANI helps with adjusting the hardware due to noise, it helps with reception. Luis _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
