[ath5k-devel] 5/10 Mhz Bandwidth options... how does it work?

2012-07-20 Thread Guido Gavilanes
Hello Guys, I have been trying to configure an AR5413/14 card 5/10 MHz through debugfs by writing into the /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath5k/bwmode and the value seems to change (when invoquing cat on the same node). What I am not still sure is that this is enough to perform bwmode and effec

Re: [ath5k-devel] 5/10 Mhz Bandwidth options... how does it work?

2012-07-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. you just have to ask the right question. :) half and quarter rates simply clock the chip at half or quarter the normal clock rate. Everything runs at a slower speed and you end up with your reduced bandwidth. There are some tricks to it. Felix is the best person to describe it to you. There a

[ath5k-devel] 5/10 Mhz Bandwidth options... how does it work?

2012-07-16 Thread John Clark
Does any one know how the 5 and 10 Mhz bandwidth options work? This is not 5 Mbits of 'transfer rate', but the bandwidth utilized for transmitting the digital signal. Since Atheros has been gobbled up by Qualcomm, the ever 'mum' Atheros on technical details has become a black hole of nothingn