On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Martín Ernesto Barreyro <barreyromartin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know, I'll post the minstrel statistics, maybe it'll help you.Some > months ago the rate control wasn't working at all, and Larry took care of > it. Since that both algorithms started working, the count of retrys was > missing at that time. > Both algorithms started working, but minstrel sometimes works for while but > then goes to the max rate, in my case 54mbps if i a don't change it to other > with iwconfig, e.g iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M auto I am sure somebody with more experience with tuning mistrel can give you some help... >> 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. > > > You are saying that i could give it a try for adding the option that i was > asking for? > Iill give it a shot but i don't know how many time will it take me Yes, compat-wlreless is useful for trying out small patches. Adding a module parameter isn't too much trouble, i think - and there are plenty of examples (many kernel module do parameters). -- 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
