From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 10:31:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9FBC10; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:31:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhugo@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from marge.meraka.csir.co.za (marge.meraka.csir.co.za [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:3::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE338FC14; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jeep.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:3:223:aeff:fea7:a3c2]) by marge.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33C9D0CC07; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:31:12 +0200 (SAST) From: Johann Hugo To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/172955: [ath] 11n does not work in adhoc mode Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:31:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-RELEASE-p3; KDE/4.7.3; amd64; ; ) References: <201210222000.q9MK01pm089451@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201210231231.12237.jhugo@meraka.csir.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:31:17 -0000 On Tuesday 23 October 2012 09:33:42 Adrian Chadd wrote: > Ok- the problem here is that unfortunately the adhoc code doesn't do > any of the HT field parsing or "upgrading". > > Adding the parsing isn't enough, it still doesn't properly negotiate > HT on both ends, so it doesn't upgrade the rate control. > > Also - the WME parameters aren't parsed either, leading to your > observation about performance drops between 7x and 8.x. > > I'm ready to test any upgrades :-) Johann