2009/4/16 Hans Maes <Hans@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > > I'm not sure this is the correct place to ask my question, but I've been > searching on google for ages now and can't seem to find an answer so I'm > asking it here. > If not, please yell at me and tell me where to go whine instead ;-) > > I'm using CM11 a/b/g cards with the Atheros AR5414A Chip, which have 2 > antenna connectors. > I only have 1 antenna connected to the MAIN connector. > Running a self compiled 2.6.29 kernel on a few debian lenny boxes with ath5k > module for the wireless cards, set up in mesh mode. > Seems to work fine on the test bench, but behaves rather poorly in > production environment. > Everything related to the mesh network setup seems to work, but I have about > 40% - 60% packet loss on the entire netwerk (about 15 nodes) > > I'm guessing this has something to do with the antenna diversity setting. > > Can anybody tell me how to tell the ath5k module to disable antenna > diversity and only use the MAIN antenna ? > > If this is a RTFM thingie, then I apologize, I just can't seem to find it > anywhere. > > Please reply to my personal e-mail address as well, I'm not subscribed to > the list. > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > > Hans After this patch... https://lists.ath5k.org/pipermail/ath5k-devel/2009-April/002264.html It's possible to tell the driver to use one fixed antenna (in your case its fixed antenna A). Just change... ath5k_hw_set_antenna_mode(ah, AR5K_ANTMODE_DEFAULT); with ath5k_hw_set_antenna_mode(ah, AR5K_ANTMODE_FIXED_A); we will have a better way to change this in the future ;-) -- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
