[WLANware] Mesh with 2 radios (help with 5 ghz)

Frederico Marques frederico at marques.cx
Fri Jan 5 22:51:05 CET 2007


Hi kloschi,

On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:44 PM, kloschi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> welcome on Wlanware :)
>
>> - Maybe it's a problem with adhoc and atheros/madwifi ?
>
> I used to have problems on Voyage Linux, because their kernel modules
> were still old generation madwifi. (not madwifi-ng).
> But if your local link in the 2.4GHz works, I see no reason why it
> should not work with the same modules in the same machine for 5GHz. :(
>
>> - Could be a problem of pigtails? I use UFL-to-N-bulkhead ones.
>
> Always.
>
>> - Checked the link with a 2.4ghz and two Omni 2.4 12 dbi Pacific
>> Wireless, and it was great! Good SNR and about 48Mbit rate  
>> connection.
>
> Hm, that again seems to be something in the difference between 2.4  
> and 5
> GHz, maybe madwifi.
>
> Maybe try and give madwifi-ng a shot.
>



Thanks for the tip, but I guess I'm already running madwifi-ng. Both  
boxes have Voyage 0.3pre2 with kernel 2.6.17 and madwifi modules from  
svn, version 0.9.2_svnr1809. Is this madwifi-ng?

Regards,

--fred







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