On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Martín Ernesto Barreyro <barreyromartin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > El vie, 06-11-2009 a las 16:48 -0500, John W. Linville escribió: >> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 06:29:16PM -0300, Martín Ernesto Barreyro wrote: >> > Hello, I have a rtl8187 wireless card and I've allways have problems >> > with the rate control using minstrel. So everytime my kernel updates >> > (recently it went from 2.30 to 2.31) i have to recompile mi kernel >> > setting pid as my default rate control algorithm. >> > >> > Is there a way to change that without compiling the kernel? >> >> No, but I wish there were...patches? Anyone? >> >> John > > I've been searching and it seems that it could be added something like > modprobe mac80211 rc='pid' > > Would it be a good idea? That's a reasonable approach, and it isn't too difficult either - somebody motivated enough could do a patch... Hmm, I think I have a question and a suggestion here: what is it you have problem with minstrel ? I don't care which one but both works well enough here. Maybe you need that sorted instead. The other thing is, you can probably patch compat-wireless to do something similiar or at least experiment with it, as long as your kernel is configured with most of them as modules. Switching compat-wireless is quite easy, and particularly with the 'driver-select rtl818x' option you just rebuild about 6 kernel modules instead of the usual 50+, which makes it quite quick and painless. -- 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
