Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.116]:60513 "EHLO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752301AbZBTCko (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:40:44 -0500 Message-ID: <499E1826.8040903@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20090220_034048_241031_253B0CB2) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:40:38 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "P.G. Richardson" CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rtl8187 cannot fix rate References: <35879.82.152.175.172.1234904444.squirrel@www.phantomjinx.co.uk> <499B27A4.30708@lwfinger.net> <42781.82.152.175.172.1234911183.squirrel@www.phantomjinx.co.uk> <499B4526.1030705@lwfinger.net> <44177.82.152.175.172.1235088928.squirrel@www.phantomjinx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44177.82.152.175.172.1235088928.squirrel@www.phantomjinx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: P.G. Richardson wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Been experimenting over last couple of days to enable this. Have > successfully recompiled the kernel and installed with above config option > enabled. This may have been unnecessary but could not compile without > doing it. > > Anyway, now running the custom kernel and installed compart-wireless > snapshot from 09/02/2009 and still nothing has appeared using > find /sys -name rc_stats > > I must be missing some vital step. Any thoughts please. The configuration needs to be in compat-wireless. Please apply the following patch and rebuild the compat-wireless package. Index: compat-wireless-2009-02-19/config.mk =================================================================== --- compat-wireless-2009-02-19.orig/config.mk +++ compat-wireless-2009-02-19/config.mk @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ endif # kernel Makefile check # Wireless subsystem stuff CONFIG_MAC80211=m +CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS=y # choose between pid and minstrel as default rate control algorithm CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT=minstrel Larry