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Subject: Re: Configuring Minstrel-Blues
From: =?utf-8?Q?Thomas_H=C3=BChn?= <thomas@inet.tu-berlin.de>
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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:52:42 +0200
Cc: linux-wireless ??? <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stanley Mui <stanleymui@google.com>
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To: Mike Mu <mikemu@google.com>
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Hi Mike,

I am working on the Minstrel-Blues part to get it integrated into minstrel_ht. My working demo is with ath5k an legacy minstrel.
As soon as I have a testing patch, I am going to announce it here.

Greetings from Berlin
Thomas

> On 15 Aug 2016, at 23:41, Mike Mu <mikemu@google.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Linux-Wireless,
> 
> I am trying to enable Minstrel-Blues for the ath9k chipset that's used
> in Google Fiber's access points. I applied the patches in
> https://github.com/thuehn/Minstrel-Blues/tree/master/src onto our
> backports-20160122 tree, with some unsuspicious merge conflicts, and
> built an image.
> 
> To test, I ran iperf from the AP to a station very close by. I
> captured the packets to look at the RSSI with and without the
> Minstrel-Blues patches applied, but did not see any difference in
> RSSI.
> 
> Is there anything I need to configure first to make it work? Is it
> possible that I'm missing a patch that's not in backports-20160122?
> 
> Thanks!
> Mike