On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Thanks. Now I am having the weirdest thing happening. Suddenly, I am getting these messages (while my connection is up and running fine!): ------- Sep 20 19:53:11 Bordeaux kernel: ForceXPAon: 0 Sep 20 19:53:11 Bordeaux kernel: ForceXPAon: 0 Sep 20 19:53:11 Bordeaux kernel: ForceXPAon: 0 Sep 20 19:53:11 Bordeaux kernel: ForceXPAon: 0 Sep 20 19:53:12 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:53:29 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:53:45 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:53:58 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:54:09 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:54:17 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:54:32 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:54:42 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:54:54 Bordeaux dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 20 19:55:11 Bordeaux kernel: ForceXPAon: 0 ------ Hmmm, Partha _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
