Re: [Madwifi-devel] Disable diversity

[Nick K. <mic...@gm...>]

2007/10/14, Matthew 'mentor' Bell <me...@ma...>:
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 18:15 +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > Hello ppl ;-)
> >
> > I'm trying to disable diversity on a 5212 using madwifi-ng with no
> > success, i've set diversity to 0, rxantenna to 2 and txantenna to 1
> > but it doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > My setup is this:
> >
> > I have 2 5212 cards connected like this...
> >
> > Path A: carda (antenna1-tx) -> attenuator -> cardb (antenna2-rx)
> > Path B: carda (antenna2-rx) -> attenuator -> cardb (antenna1-tx)
> >
> > i start doing ping from carda to cardb and athstats show that packets
> > are sent ok from antenna 1 and received from antenna 2. At some time i
> > disconnect one of the 2 paths. Normally since i have disabled
> > diversity through sysctl, ping should stop (either because packets
> > won't reach cardb -path A disconnected- or acks won't reach carda
> > -path B disconnected-). Weird thing is that not only ping continues
> > but athstats show that diversity works fine using the working path for
> > both rx/tx.
>
> Well, I doubt the attenuation on the antenna switch is perfect, and
> they're connected by cable, so...
>
> mentor
>
>

They are 2 different paths (2 independent cables/attenuators -no
switch i just disable one of the paths) and even if packets reach the
other antenna since i've disabled diversity it shouldn't listen for
packets there.

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