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

Alexander Morlang alx at dd19.de
Sat Jan 6 23:00:40 CET 2007



Frederico Marques schrieb:
> 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?

are you doing 5GHz ad-hoc? try managed mode for point2point.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --fred
> 
> 
> 
Greets, Alex



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