ORBIT-USER: Topologies in ORBIT

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Dec 22, 2007 6:43 PM, Ivan Seskar <Seskar at winlab.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> PS: There are various version of Madwifi driver that are supporting rate
> setting but almost all require you to modify the source one way or
> another; I am sure there will be others on the list who will be able to
> give you more hints ...

In MadWifi retry rates are determined by the rate algorithm used. You
can still override this but its a hack. The following patch does just
this with wireless extensions on MadWifi, as an example, please let me
know if this works. With it you should be able to override retires by
using commands like `iwconfig ath0 retry 3` and so on.

http://orbit-lab.org/attachment/wiki/Documentation/SupportedImages/baseline-2.4.ndz/patch-03-retry-fix.diff

If you want something more elegant I'd recommend to start instead
hacking on ath5k. Here are some guides:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k

Please play close attention to the "Hacking ath5k" section. For more
development documentation I can recommend this page:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation

  Luis