Return-path: Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:34657 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933100Ab0BYRvg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:51:36 -0500 Received: by pwj8 with SMTP id 8so5825669pwj.19 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:51:35 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6b5e31691002250640k154a1f22xa46bac547c69b250@mail.gmail.com> References: <6b5e31691002250640k154a1f22xa46bac547c69b250@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:51:32 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ath5k and Retransmissions (Retries) From: Bob Copeland To: Andrew Blaich Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Andrew Blaich wrote: > Hi everyone, > > ? I have been attempting, unsuccessfully, to alter the number > retransmissions any particular transmission rate uses. ?My card is > reported as an AR5414 (Atheros) and the ath5k driver is being loaded. What exactly are you changing? The MRR array determines how many retries there are for a given packet (hint, each packet has a set of 4 different rates and each rate has its own retry count). The driver also tells mac80211 the max number of retries. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com