[ath9k-devel] getting 11n to work?

[bnc at netspeed.com.au <bnc@netspeed.com.au>]

Luis,
Thanks for the explanation/s, understood.

Unfortunately that leaves me with the problem that I do not understand
why I am not connecting at 11n?

I will try to set up some trace to investigate further.

Brian

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:31:41 -0700
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:29:09PM -0700, bnc at netspeed.com.au wrote:
> > Luis,
> > I understood the difference between the two lists.
> > I also understood from your previous remarks that because I had a
> > single stream chip mcs7 was all I could get.
> > Does this prevent me from using 11n though?
> 
> No, MCS 1-7 are for 11n, what you have is an 802.11n single
> stream device.
> 
> > I am currently doing a compile on another laptop which I am pretty
> > sure is multistream, so will test there too.
> > 
> > I also noticed that from the list you get
> > HT MCS set: ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > but on the multistream you get
> > HT MCS set: ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > What does the second set of ff mean?
> 
> The MCS set is parsed and is where we get the supported MCS indexes.
> I am too lazy to check the exact location of the second ff here but
> mostl likely it parse out to the other set of MCS indexes. In other
> words you can ignore the MCS set print out as it is already parsed
> by iw list anyway.
> 
>   Luis
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