From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "P.G. Richardson" <p.g.richardson@phantomjinx.co.uk>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtl8187 cannot fix rate
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:40:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499E1826.8040903@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44177.82.152.175.172.1235088928.squirrel@www.phantomjinx.co.uk>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-20 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 21:00 rtl8187 cannot fix rate P.G. Richardson
2009-02-17 21:09 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-17 22:53 ` P.G. Richardson
2009-02-17 23:15 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-20 0:15 ` P.G. Richardson
2009-02-20 2:40 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-02-20 23:42 ` P.G. Richardson
2009-02-21 0:14 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-22 12:30 ` P.G. Richardson
2009-03-01 17:48 ` rtl8187 performance diagnostics (was: rtl8187 cannot fix rate) P.G. Richardson
2009-03-01 19:29 ` rtl8187 performance diagnostics Larry Finger
2009-03-01 19:59 ` P.G. Richardson
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