Re: [ath5k-devel] How to get medium (carrier-sense) information from Atheros chipsets?

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Guerin
Have a look at the ANI file in /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyx/ath5k/ani You will need to enable debugfs & debug entries for ath5k in your kernel config. Alternatively, you can look at the patches Bruno Randolf added: [PATCH 2/2] ath5k: Add channel time to survey data Cheers, -- Jonathan Gueri

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Tue December 7 2010 10:12:18 Jonathan Guerin wrote: > > Another thing that strikes me here is: why use multi rate retries if the > > rate is all the same? (Ignore the actual value of the rate, this is the > > HW rate code). > > > > Other examples: > > > > *** txdesc tries 2 > > *** mrr 0 tries

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Mon December 6 2010 19:53:49 Sedat Dilek wrote: > >> But it seems weird that there are so many retransmissions. The default > >> maximum numbers of retransmissions should be 7 for short frames and 4 > >> for long frames (dot11[Short|Long]RetryLimit), and this is what is set > >> as defaults in m

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k on AR2315 WiSoC

2010-12-06 Thread Lorenzo Bianconi
Hi, >> Hi, >> >> > Hi Wojciech, >> > >> >>> Hi all, >> >>> >> >>> I am trying to switch from madwifi to ath5k on AR2315 WiSoC (Fon >> >>> 2100A) using patches from Wojciech and Felix but at module >> loading >> >>> the >> >>> driver is not able to attach the HW. In particular it seems that >> >>> a

[ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k: Use capabilities information for the number of TX queues

2010-12-06 Thread Bruno Randolf
One thing I missed in my WME series: Older hardware does not have enough hardware queues to support WME. In this case we just set up one data queue. Use the capability information to decide how many queues to set up. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf -- resend, seems like it got lost somewhere in a

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Guerin
2010/12/7 Björn Smedman : > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Bruno Randolf wrote: > [snip] >> >> Other examples: >> >> *** txdesc tries 2 >> *** mrr 0 tries 9 rate 12 >> *** mrr 1 tries 2 rate 13 >> *** mrr 2 tries 3 rate 11 >> >> = 16 transmissions in sum. >> >> *** txdesc tries 9 >> *** mrr 0 tri

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Guerin
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > 2010/12/6 Jonathan Guerin : >> Hi, >> >> >> I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention >> windows and retransmissions. >> >> Firstly, I'll just describe the test scenario and setup that I have. I >> have 3 Via x86 no

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Guerin
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > 2010/12/6 Bruno Randolf : >> On Mon December 6 2010 15:30:00 Jonathan Guerin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention >>> windows and retransmissions. >>> >>> Firstly, I'll just describe

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Guerin
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Mon December 6 2010 15:30:00 Jonathan Guerin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention >> windows and retransmissions. >> >> Firstly, I'll just describe the test scenario and setup that I hav

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 5/6] ath5k: Update version string

2010-12-06 Thread Nick Kossifidis
2010/12/3 John W. Linville : > On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:17:41PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Nick Kossifidis wrote: >> >  * Change version number, we've added various new features lately. >> >  We need to find a way to maintain this, maybe on each kernel rel

[ath5k-devel] backoff window help in ath5k

2010-12-06 Thread siddharth
hi, I am new to ath5k. I want to change the exponential backoff window in ath5k(I think it wil be on the firmware of the card). Also i am unable to find the queues in the ath5k code.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Siddharth ___ ath5k-devel maili

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Björn Smedman
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Bruno Randolf wrote: [snip] > > Other examples: > > *** txdesc tries 2 > *** mrr 0 tries 9 rate 12 > *** mrr 1 tries 2 rate 13 > *** mrr 2 tries 3 rate 11 > > = 16 transmissions in sum. > > *** txdesc tries 9 > *** mrr 0 tries 3 rate 11 > *** mrr 1 tries 9 rate 8 >

[ath5k-devel] How to get medium (carrier-sense) information from Atheros chipsets?

2010-12-06 Thread Stefan Schwalowsky (inIT)
Hello, I'm working on a research project dealing with real-time capabilities of WLAN. Currently I'm analyzing the ATH5K driver and trying to find a way to get information about the medium state (carrier-sense state) . I want to check whether the medium is currently occupied by other stations or

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > 2010/12/6 Bruno Randolf : >> On Mon December 6 2010 15:30:00 Jonathan Guerin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention >>> windows and retransmissions. >>> >>> Firstly, I'll just describe

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Nick Kossifidis
2010/12/6 Jonathan Guerin : > Hi, > > > I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention > windows and retransmissions. > > Firstly, I'll just describe the test scenario and setup that I have. I > have 3 Via x86 nodes with Atheros AR5001X+ cards. They are tethered to > each other

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Nick Kossifidis
2010/12/6 Bruno Randolf : > On Mon December 6 2010 15:30:00 Jonathan Guerin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention >> windows and retransmissions. >> >> Firstly, I'll just describe the test scenario and setup that I have. I >> have 3 Via x86 nodes

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k becomes unusable after xx mins of idle

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Williams
On 6 December 2010 18:06, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Mon December 6 2010 16:22:49 Mark Williams wrote: >> Please, anyone?? >> If im asking in the wrong place, can you advise me as to where i >> should be asking? > > This is the right place for ath5k related things, but since you are running a > cus

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

2010-12-06 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Mon December 6 2010 15:30:00 Jonathan Guerin wrote: > Hi, > > > I've been doing some investigation into the behaviour of contention > windows and retransmissions. > > Firstly, I'll just describe the test scenario and setup that I have. I > have 3 Via x86 nodes with Atheros AR5001X+ cards. The