Hi everyone, I have been attempting, unsuccessfully, to alter the number retransmissions any particular transmission rate uses. My card is reported as an AR5414 (Atheros) and the ath5k driver is being loaded. My understanding based on the source code in compat-wireless is that the retry count for the rates are set, ideally in the rate control algorithm, e.g. minstrel, and is then passed off to the hardware at some point in the transmit chain. Is there a lower limit that the hardware accepts for retransmission values? I've been trying to set the value to 1 and then potenially to 0 to completely disable retransmissions, for experimentation purposes. However, despite whatever value the data structures in the codereport back to me, I've been through what I believe to be every file in the compat-wireless that deals with retries, when I sniff the wireless channel using a separate node I am still seeing retransmissions being produced for the particularly flow I have established. Is this a hardware issue of which I will not be able to fix the retransmissions, or is there something more obvious I am missing and perhaps you can lend some wisdom as to the appropriate locations to change the retry limit so that the hardware will obey the value. Thank you. -Andrew -- 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
