Re: [ath5k-devel] 2.3 GHz coverage on my Acer Aspire One AR5BXB63 Atheros Card ?

2011-10-19 Thread Holger Schurig
Hi, DH3HS here. Madwifi source code is End-of-life here, I wouldn't recommend this. There are amateur radio specific WLAN router distributions available, you should go to one of them to ask for specifics (e.g. source code). There are various project to build links all over the country, e.g.

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-19 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
Bob, real world work interfered back in June but now I have a few more data points. I made a cross test with ath5k on Fedora 2.6.40 (e.g. 3.0) and Madwifi-0.9.4 on 2.6.23. The interesting observation is, that the ath5k bottleneck seems to be on the transmission end, e.g if the iperf client is

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. does madwifi have that net80211 aggressive mode by default, where it overrides the best-effort WME queue parameters to allow for bursting? I see exactly that difference in FreeBSD (33mbit vs 22mbit) when I disable that aggressive mode code. Thanks, Adrian

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:33:53 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: .. does madwifi have that net80211 aggressive mode by default, where it overrides the best-effort WME queue parameters to allow for bursting? I tried madwifi-0.9.4 snapshot on a CM9 card, and I got: # iwpriv ath0