Rates in ad hoc mode
Diego Passos
diegogpassos at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 15:15:04 EST 2011
Hello,
I'm using b43 in a Linksys wrt54g router (b43's dmesg output says it's
a broadcom 4712 revision 7). The router runs a stock openwrt image,
using kernel 2.6.32.10. I have an ad hoc network composed of several
nodes.
The driver works fine (very stable), except for the available
transmission rates. It seems I cannot transmit packets using rates
other than 1Mbps. Using a laptop as a sniffer I can only see frames
being sent at 1 Mbps, even if I try to force a different rate with:
# iwconfig wlan0 rate 12M
or
# iwconfig wlan0 rate 12M fixed
The output from dmesg shows that a default rate control algorithm
(minstrel) is loaded whenever I load b43. At first, I thought minstrel
could be forcing the 1 Mbps rate, so I checked the debug info
available in /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/stations/*/rc_stats. The
file, which should show information about all rates, shows only one
entry (for 1 Mbps).
If I change the mode to Managed, all usual rates are available
(including in minstrel debug info) and my sniffer shows frames being
transmitted at other rates.
My question is: is this a limitation of the driver (in ad hoc mode) or
am I missing something (such as a new driver version or a bad
configuration)? Also, is there a way of changing or even disabling (on
run-time) the rate control algorithm?
Thanks in advance,
Diego
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